{"id":6900,"date":"2011-11-10T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2011-11-10T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:44:24","slug":"patent-filed-for-nanocomposite-polymer-based-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=6900","title":{"rendered":"Patent Filed for Nanocomposite Polymer-Based Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6902\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JudeIroh_UnivCincinnati.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6902\" title=\"JudeIroh_UnivCincinnati\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JudeIroh_UnivCincinnati.jpg\" alt=\"Jude Iroh (University of Cincinnati)\" width=\"250\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JudeIroh_UnivCincinnati.jpg 250w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JudeIroh_UnivCincinnati-150x119.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jude Iroh (University of Cincinnati)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A materials scientist at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uc.edu\/news\/NR.aspx?id=14594\">University of Cincinnati<\/a> has developed a transparent and electrically conductive polymer-based film with potential solar and fuel cell applications. Jude Iroh (pictured right), who is also an engineering professor at UC, recently filed a provisional patent for the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The nanocomposite film is transparent and electrically conductive, says Iroh, as well as economical, durable, flexible, and heat resistant. With this material, Iroh envisions, &#8220;a very thin solar panel that can be unrolled and applied, perhaps to an automobile, while the sun is shining, then peeled off and stored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The material can also serve as a replacement of indium tin oxide, widely used in touch-screen devices like smart phones and video kiosks, as well as flat panel displays, electronic inks, and organic light-emitting diodes. The U.S. imports all of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mii.org\/minerals\/photoindium.html\">indium<\/a>, considered a rare earth, with the majority of the metal coming from Canada, but significant portions also imported from Russia and China. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metalprices.com\/pubcharts\/Public\/Indium_Price_Charts.asp\">price of indium<\/a> has fluctuated over the past year, but today stands about 20 percent higher than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The development of the new material grew out Iroh&#8217;s earlier work on coatings, particularly for corrosion prevention. &#8220;A coating is essentially a film,&#8221; says Iroh. As Iroh tells it, he gained more insight into the function of various substances as coatings with useful properties, even if they were not coating something.<\/p>\n<p>Iroh filed a provisional patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on 5 November. He already holds several patents on laminated composites.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=6235\">Copper Nanofilm Can Replace Rare Earth in Digital Displays<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A materials scientist at University of Cincinnati has developed a transparent and electrically conductive polymer-based film with potential solar and fuel cell applications. Jude Iroh (pictured right), who is also an engineering professor at UC, recently filed a provisional patent for the discovery. The nanocomposite film is transparent and electrically conductive, says Iroh, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[96,68,86,43,18,29,105,17,26,7],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-p","category-products","tag-chemistry","tag-energy","tag-engineering","tag-materials-science","tag-nanotechnology","tag-patent","tag-physical-sciences","tag-solar","tag-university","tag-uspto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/6905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}