All-interfacial materials as a sustainable design concept for industrial development
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| Coordinator | Linköpings universitet - Deparment of Physics, Chemistry and Biology |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 500 000 |
| Project duration | December 2019 - September 2020 |
| Status | Completed |
Important results from the project
The project has implemented a coating equipment to demonstrate the concept. This has required the development of a vacuum compatible evaporation system to control the evaporation of organic molecules to bond metal layers together. Property characterization remains, and there is still a need for improved process control and to understand and characterize chemical bonds in detail.
Expected long term effects
The project has implemented a coating system to demonstrate the concept, a vacuum compatible evaporation system to control the evaporation of organic molecules to bond metal layers together, and and implemented this in selected structures of metal / organic multilayers. We have thus come quite some way.
Approach and implementation
The work of developing the deposition system has taken up most of the time and effort. Developing such a vacuum-compatible evaporation system has been both time-consuming and labor-intensive, especially with the (in themselves fully manageable) delays related to covid19. That we have been able to develop this system and can evaporate and characterize specific organic molecules for metal layers is a very good outcome.