Recent efforts in strengthening activities in the “Plastic Electronics” area have been rewarded in the Technology Programme Spring 2007competition of the Technology Strategy Board, formerly known as DTI, and in a FP-7 Large-Scale Integrating Network:

DECAF: Delivering Electronic Components with Aligned Layers by Foil Stamping

ONE-P: Organic Nanomaterials for Electronics and Photonics: Design, Synthesis, Characterization, Processing, Fabrication and Applications

For the two newly funded projects, QMUL researchers around Natalie Stingelin will seek to develop pathways to manufacture flexible plastic electronic components in a roll-to-roll fashion. To this end, they will collaborate with NPL, Novalia, CPI (Centre for Process Innovation), RK Print, and De La Rue (DTI programme), and within the frame work of ONE-P, with leading European groups in the field of “Plastic Electronics”, including those at the University of Cambridge (UK), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The Netherlands), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Université Louis Pasteur (France), Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (Italy), Max-Planck Institute of Polymer Research (Germany), IMEC (Belgium), as well as industrial partners at Merck, Philips, BASF and Johnson Mattey.