In materials science, transparency and conductivity are inconvenient. Traditional glass as an excellent transparency material is an insulator, and touch screens of smart phones usually increase the indium tin oxide thin film coating to achieve conductivity. Although the cost of polymer preparation is low, However, in order to make them conductive, a chemical doping process is usually used, which increases the manufacturing cost and also reduces the transparency of the material. Purdue University’s research team obtained a radical modification of the transparent non-conducting polymer material. New polymer film material.
According to Bryan Boudouris, one of the authors of the paper, 'our idea is whether we can make polymers that can be produced on a large scale and at the same time make them electronically active. The precursors of new materials can be produced in tons and obtained from carbon-based materials. The result of a conductive transparent material is amazing
The key to the success of the transparent material's conductivity is the radical groups. The team started the computer simulation with the addition of a partially transparent radical group. Through a number of simulation teams, the desired free radical group that allows the polymer to conduct electricity was obtained. The team designed the process for preparing this new material at room temperature based on the simulation results and succeeded in obtaining a new type of conductive glassy transparent polymer film material. The research results were published in the journal Science.