In this paper we will report a superior transparent conductive ITO‐alternative material, ClearOhm® ink, developed by Cambrios Advanced Materials Corporation. ClearOhm® ink consists of a formulated dispersion of silver nanowires, which can be wet coated or printed to form a transparent conductive film. The coated film can achieve a wide range of sheet resistance from 5 to 300 ohms/square. Coatings on flexible PET film have excellent optical properties: > 91% total transmission and < 0.4 % total haze at 40 ohms/square or higher. The coated film can bend through a 1 mm bending radius for more than 350,000 cycles and stretch up to 4% strain with less than 10% resistance change, thus enabling emerging flexible/foldable displays. ClearOhm® silver nanowire films have been engineered for robust reliability. In this paper, we discuss the environmental stability of ClearOhm® silver nanowire films in accelerated aging tests, including the elimination of silver nanowire photo‐oxidation when exposed to UV light such as sunlight.

A novel wet‐processable transparent electrode material exhibits significant performance advantages over ITO. This material has recently achieved mass production in smart phones.

La presente invention concerne des modifications apportees a des conducteurs transparents a base de nanostructures dans le but d'atteindre un voile/diffraction lumineuse accru(e) avec des degres de diffraction differents et accordables, des materiaux differents et des microstructures et nanostructures differentes.

This report describes a method of controlling the sensitivity and reproducibility of a microchip-based immunoassay by using isotachophoresis to preconcentrate the antigen and antibody prior to binding. Gel electrophoresis separation is coupled to the preconcentration step to separate the immunocomplex products formed. The system employs a quartz-based LabChip that automates the metering, preconcentration, reaction, separation, and detection. The system also uses a handoff mechanism that switches the immunocomplex from the stacking mode to the separation mode. We show that the handoff timing affects the data quality and repeatability of the electropherograms, and we demonstrate an automatic handoff mechanism to precisely control the signal intensity and separation of peaks of interest. In so doing, the automatic handoff mechanism also improves the reproducibility of the assay. When applied to the homogeneous liquid-phase detection of alpha-fetoprotein, a common tumor marker, the system shows a greater than 200-fold stacking of specific analytes of interest.