· Patterning metals for electronics and solar cells can be slow, expensive and involve toxic chemicals
· Patterning metals for electronics and solar cells can be slow, expensive and involve toxic chemicals
· Scientists from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick have developed a way to make patterned films of silver and copper (the two most conductive metals) using cheap organofluorine compounds and without using toxic chemicals.
· This method is more sustainable and potentially much cheaper because it uses an extremely thin printed layer of organofluorine to prevent metal deposition, so metal is only deposited where it is needed.
· It can be used to make electrodes for flexible solar panels, next generation sensors and low-emissivity glass
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Image: Dr Ross Hatton examining a patterned metal. (Credit: University of Warwick)
