Center for Green Materials Chemistry

ONAMI member researchers and collaborators in both academia and industry are leading a growing collaboration in the study and design of environmentally benign chemistry platforms for the fabrication of high-performance inorganic electronic devices. Beginning from groundbreaking work on transparent electronics and atomic-precision synthesis using both low-temperature solution chemistry and gas-phase assembly techniques, the range of applications for these greener (i.e. benign and earth-abundant elements, lower cost fabrication methods) materials platforms includes many aspects of electronics manufacturing, optics, sensors, thermoelectrics, magnetics, coatings and metrology standards.

ONAMI researchers have recently demonstrated atomically dense and atomically smooth solution processed inorganic films, functionally graded materials from modulated elemental reactants, and a growing range of composite electronic materials.

This work has direct implications for:

  • Nanoscale patterning for semiconductors and other applications
  • High-performance thin film electronic elements, e.g. MIM electronics
  • Printed electronics on non-traditional substrates
  • Large area and lower cost display backplanes
  • High-performance thermoelectric cooling
  • Low cost thin-film photovoltaics

Learn more about the NSF Phase I Center for Green Materials Chemistry

Professors Douglas Keszler at Oregon State University and David Johnson at the University of Oregon lead this collaborative research initiative.

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