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Impact

The Advanced Materials for Energy and Electronics Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers better materials with unique and exceptional properties for next generation:

• Semiconductor electronics
• Optoelectronics; and,
• Energy applications.

Materials Systems

The research group, led by Prof. Michael Arnold, specializes in conjugated carbon- and earth-abundant electronic materials including:

• Small molecule and polymeric organic semiconductors
• Structure-controlled carbon nanotubes and semiconducting graphene; and,
• Inorganic-organic hybrid nanostructured composites.

Approach

We couple fundamental investigations of synthesis, growth, and processing with in-depth studies of the underpinning mechanisms that control the properties and behaviors of these materials in devices.

Motivations

This work is motivated by society's rapidly growing energy consumption due to the expansion of the worldwide industrial economy, as well as the continued demand for smaller, faster, more sensitive, and more economical electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices.

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