Thanks to the fruitful collaboration with Universidad de La Rioja, a new family of sustainable and biogenic electrolytes for lighting has been introduced! Our cellulose-based active layer showed high performance and self-stability.
We are very pleased to welcome our new team member Ginevra Giobbio.
She is a PhD student working under the supervision of both Dr. Sylvain Gaillard (University of Caen, France) and Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa (Technische Universität München, Germany). This shared project aims at developing new electroluminescent earth abundant transition metal complexes and their implementation in light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC).
We employed chalcogen-bonded p-type semiconducting ribbons as hole transport layers in light-emitting electrochemical cells achieving on par performances with state-of-art semiconductors! Thanks to the great collaboration and the European funding ITN-ETN project STiBNite.
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Dr. Kumer and Dr. Zieleniewska have been awarded with the MSCA fellowship to work on designing new emitters for thin-film lighting devices and dual devices for light and temperature management, respectively. In addition, another fellow is on the reserve list. We keep finger crossed!!
Thanks to the European Commission for funding these new idea!
Rubén has been accepted as European Climate Pact Ambassador with a strong commitment in education to all public on climate action. In this context, we have already prepared a TUM Campus Straubing pledge. The range of pledges is extremely varied, seeking to address climate change, environmental degradation and, more broadly, sustainability.
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Rubén has shown our recent results in bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes and solar cells in the BioINSP conference https://dgm.de/bioinsp/2022/.
Fruitful scientific bio-inspired discussions and new collaborations.
Special thanks to Prof. Zollfrank and Petra Peklo as well as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM) for organizing this excellent conference!!