ZEISS and LG Chem join forces to strengthen the photopolymer supply chain for advanced optics

04-Nov-2025 - ZEISS and LG Chem announce their strategic alliance that stands for robust, sustainable, and innovative photopolymer film supply on industrial scale. This partnership marks a milestone for the optical industry. These photopolymer films are a key material for Holographic Windshield Displays (HWD) ...

Lords of the molecular Rings: An Innovative Shortcut to High-Performance Organic Materials

A Game Changer for Advanced Technologies

19-Mar-2025 - Scientists at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna, have unveiled an innovative approach for synthesizing azaparacyclophanes (APCs), a class of highly advanced ring-shaped molecular structures with immense potential in material science. Their innovative Catalyst-Transfer ...

Merck Reiterates Confidence in Returning to Sustainable Growth

Tailwind thanks to robust global growth trends in all three business sectors

18-Oct-2024 - Merck is looking confidently toward the future. At the Capital Markets Day, the company shared its expectation of profitable and financially strong growth in the coming years. After the transitional year of 2023, Merck considers the medium-term growth opportunities in its markets to be intact. ...

Breakthrough for next-generation digital displays

In addition to the screen reacting to touch, light, fingerprints and the user’s pulse, the device can also be charged through the screen

12-Apr-2024 - Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a digital display screen where the LEDs themselves react to touch, light, fingerprints and the user’s pulse, among other things. Their results, published in Nature Electronics, could be the start of a whole new generation of displays for ...

Simply blue

New material concept allows more cost-effective production of blue organic light-emitting diodes

14-Sep-2023 - Blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which can be used in smartphones, televisions or other devices, are still difficult to manufacture today. A team of researchers led by Gert-Jan Wetzelaer of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research has now developed a new material concept that ...

beeOLED raises EUR 13.3m in Series A funding to solve the last big challenge of the OLED industry

The deep tech startup will use the investment to further develop its innovative, high-efficiency, deep-blue emitter technology towards go-to-market-readiness

28-Aug-2023 - beeOLED, a Dresden-based deep-tech startup, today announced it has raised EUR 13.3m for a Series A funding co-led by eCAPITAL and Innovation Industries. The round was joined by KBC Focus Fund as well as existing investors M Ventures (the corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, ...

The chameleon effect: Sustainable sensors and displays

An elastic material that changes color, conducts electricity, can be 3D printed and is also biodegradable?

05-Jul-2023 - Is it possible to 3D print biodegradable sensors and displays? Researchers from Empa's Cellulose & Wood Materials laboratory have developed a cellulose-based material that allows just that. The mixture of hydroxpropyl cellulose with water, carbon nanotubes and cellulose nanofibrils changes color ...

Scientists have developed fluorophores that are 2.4 to 20 times more intense than analogues

The new material will help improve displays on smartphones, computers, and televisions

27-Oct-2022 - Scientists have developed, synthesized, and studied a series of new fluorophores, a luminous chemical compound. These are the new cyanopyrazine-based bullet systems. Studies have shown that the presence of cyanogroup substance in the composition of fluorophores significantly increases the ...

Sustainable Chemistry Based on Wood

Producing materials for solar cells, light-emitting diodes and other organic electronics applications as sustainably as possible

17-Feb-2022 - Some hikers carry a small solar power plant with them: a foil is attached to their backpack that converts sunlight into electricity. This allows them to charge their mobile phone while on the move. Flexible, thin and lightweight solar panels can also be attached to outdoor clothing or glued to ...

First fully 3D-printed, flexible OLED display

Technology opens door to ubiquitous, more easily fabricated electronic screens

12-Jan-2022 - In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities used a customized printer to fully 3D print a flexible organic light-emitting diode(OLED) display. The discovery could result in low-cost OLED displays in the future that could be widely produced using 3D ...