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Chemical Engineer Develops Plastic With Changeable Electrical Conductivity |
 Photo: Caroling Lee Click on photo for high res images. |
Dr. Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, assistant professor of chemical engineering, in her research lab with students involved in the research to manufacture a plastic with conductive properties. With Loo are students (L-R) James Norman, Joung Eun Yoo, and Kwang Seok Lee. Yoo was lead author, and Lee a co-author, of the April Journal of Materials Chemistry article in which the laboratory demonstrated up to a six-fold increase in conductivity of polyaniline. |
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Dr. Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, assistant professor of chemical engineering, bends a silicone stamp used in creating patterns for fabricating polyaniline wires. Since the journal article was submitted, Loo's laboratory has found a way to manufacture polyaniline with 10-fold greater conductivity. |
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Dr. Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, assistant professor of chemical engineering, displays a pliable sheet with printed polyaniline wires and interconnects. |
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These vials contain liquid polyaniline solutions used in creating the transistor wires in the sheet above. The water-based solutions are considered critical to making inexpensive polyaniline, and for converting the plastic from a non-conducting state (blue vials) to a conducting state (green vial). |
