#electrochromic

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Novel 'ink' for light-based 3D printing enables color-changing, conducting polymer structures

A new type of "ink" makes it possible to 3D print electrochemically switchable, conducting polymers using a light-based process. Researchers from the universities of Heidelberg and Stuttgart have succeeded in making so-called redox polymers useful for additive manufacturing with digital light processing. The complex two- and three-dimensional structures created in this way can be manipulated electrochemically to change color. This opens up new perspectives for manufacturing 3D-printed optoelectronic devices. The research work was conducted within the Research Training Group "Mixed Ionic-Electronic Transport: From Fundamentals to Applications," which is supported by both universities. The study is published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.

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[limitiz-nk]

friendly interaction

[sleepy-gardevoir]

march 16, 2023 - thursday week 2

i have a quiz on the 20 canonical amino acids tomorrow, so i've been working some more on getting those memorized! i can draw almost all the structures from the name but i can't remember all the pKas of the sidechains 🙏 wish me luck!!

today, i stopped by the research lab to see if our quantum dots had formed, but no such luck. we're leaving the solutions in the oven for another day, so we'll see if we get results from that! hoping for the best so that we don't have to use all our sodium tungstate dihydrate before getting anything.

i also started rereading vicious by v.e. schwab and am more than 200 pages in... needless to say, i am enjoying it thoroughly.

[molagboop]

Fasteners? Polished. Whites? Freshly starched. Fucks? None given. Her demeanor is that of an arctic baclozen and her kill count is rumored in the thousands. All business, no shenanigans: Admiral Fuja is the face of calculating military genius.

And she's about ready to turn this frigate around.

Another sketch that has its roots in volume ii of Samus and Adam's Great Big Court Martialed Adventure, broadcast live from the mind of @sablegear0.

[gale-draws]

tiny eidolon, did you know they would fill you with stardust?

that infinite complexity, when put in a (virtual) box, felt so much more

natural.

fanart for sablegear0′s fantastic series, electrochromic! (@askelectrochromic)

was re-reading cyanide last night and started thinking about the first time Adam was given the eidolon and how it felt to extend his consciousness into it

[seadolph]

a scene from chapter 2 of @sablegear0's Metroid fanfic, Iron and Sulfur, which i'm really enjoying! (it's part two of Electrochromic, on ao3.) fancy party flashback means fancy clothing, and fancy clothing is fun to draw!!

[defunctoise]

I've had an Adam-centric fic idea in my head for years now and as much as I wanna write it, I'm concerned about unconsciously plagerizing a recent and really good AI Adam fic called "Cyanide".

Like The Fic™ idea I have isn't 100% AI Adam and the plots of both are pretty different I think, but I get nervous because I'm bad at knowing whether a cool line I thought up is completely original or something I read somewhere else.

All of this would also require me to actually write, a thing I am bad at and bad at doing.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

New n-doped transparent conductor shows promise for all-polymer electrochromic displays

Recent technological advances have enabled the development of increasingly sophisticated and energy-efficient displays for electronic devices. To further improve existing displays and create even more efficient ones, some engineers have been trying to synthesize and identify new materials with promising opto-electronic properties. A research team at Purdue University has synthesized a transparent conducting polymer dubbed n-doped poly(benzodifurandione) (n-PBDF), which could be used to develop more sustainable and efficient electrochromic displays. This polymer, introduced in a paper published in Nature Electronics, was used to fabricate a display that exhibits low power consumption, bistability (i.e., the ability to maintain a pixel's visual state without requiring continuous power supply) and full-color capabilities.

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