{"663561":{"#nid":"663561","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Going Back to Basics Yields a Printable, Transparent Plastic That\u2019s Highly Conductive","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt was a simple idea \u0026mdash; maybe even too simple to work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch scientist James Ponder and a team of Georgia Tech chemists and engineers thought they could design a transparent polymer film that would conduct electricity as effectively as other commonly used materials, while also being flexible and easy to use at an industrial scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey\u0026rsquo;d do it by simply removing the nonconductive material from their conductive element. Sounds logical, right?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe resulting process could yield new kinds of flexible, transparent electronic devices \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;things like wearable biosensors, organic photovoltaic cells, and virtual or augmented reality displays and glasses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We had this initial idea that we have a conductive element that we\u0026#39;re covering with a nonconductive material, so what if we just get rid of that,\u0026rdquo; said Ponder, who earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Georgia Tech and returned as a research scientist in mechanical engineering. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s a simple idea, and there were so many points where it could have failed for different reasons. But it does work, and it works better than we expected.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/12\/going-back-basics-yields-printable-transparent-plastic-thats-highly-conductive\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead more about the team\u0026#39;s flexible, highly conductive polymer on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChemists and engineers collaborate on process that washes away nonconductive side chains from a robust polymer backbone to create a powerful conductive plastic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Chemists and engineers collaborate on process that washes away nonconductive side chains from a robust polymer backbone to create a powerful conductive plastic."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-12-01 14:52:51","changed_gmt":"2023-03-02 19:45:08","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"663560":{"id":"663560","type":"image","title":"Conductive transparent polymer","body":null,"created":"1669906068","gmt_created":"2022-12-01 14:47:48","changed":"1669906068","gmt_changed":"2022-12-01 14:47:48","alt":"A strip of transparent conductive polymer held in a square black holder with an oval window in the middle. 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