18 Million Euro investment plan for developing new organic nanomaterials

9 March 2009

Current silicon semiconductors are used in any electronic equipment, however the major disadvantage of silicon chip is that their manufacturing requires lots of energy and also generate huge amount of waste. Although, the silicon semiconductor industry is well established but because of their high cost manufacturing many EU member states have ambitious plan to develop new organic nanomaterials that can lead to new future generation electronics.

A total of 28 partners from 10 EU member states are participating in the project ONE – P and a total of 18 million Euro under the NMP Theme of Seventh Framework Programme (FP 7) will be invested during the next three years. The research will develop many new nano material products including nano materials for use in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), photo detectors etc.

The main advantage of organic nanomaterials is that they are easy to fabricate and these uses less energy as well as generate less waste. The current FP 7 (Framework Programme Seven) will develop many new novel technologies that will enhance the Europe’s member countries position as world leaders in organic nanomaterial area. It is expected that the new novel technologies will be easy to process, fabricate, cheap and will generate less waster or will be environmental friendly.

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