17/18 January 2007 Wiener Neustadt - Czelo

Materials Ireland Polymer Research Centre, School of Physics
Address Trinity College Dublin Ireland
2 - Dublin
Phone / Fax 003531 8962404 /
www http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/
Size 250+
Organisation Type University
Contact Person
Name Marie Callanan
Position Project Manager
Email mcallana@tcd.ie
Type of co-operation (Offered, Requested) Areas of activity
Licence agreement
Technical Co-operation (R&D) Boths
Joint research project Boths
Joint-venture agreement
Manufacturing agreement
Commercial agreement
Financial agreement
• Electronics, Microelectronics
• Materials Technology
• Composite Materials
• Plastics, Polymers
• Biosensor
• Filtration/Membrane Process
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Short description of company
The Trinity School of Physics has a well-established international reputation for innovative research in Magnetic,
Electronic and Photonic Materials, Nanoscience and Computational Physics, all areas that are highly relevant to
the national priority theme of leadership in Information and Communication Technology.
The European Communitys 2003 Report on Science and Technology Indicators confirms TCD as the institution
that is most active and the most cited in published physics research.
Materials Ireland Polymer Research Centre encompasses researchers from the fields of physics, chemistry,
engineering, biology and computer simulation. Thus a unique, multidisciplinary environment has been created for
research and education.
The groups facilities include a fully functional organic synthesis chemistry laboratory, device fabrication and
testing laboratory, various LASER systems, including a state of the art femtosecond mult-wavelength system and
optical, electrical and magnetic resonance material characterisation facilities. Due to their unique combination of
processibility and semiconducting properties organic materials now rival inorganics such as silicon in certain
areas of electronics and optoelectronics.
Research in the group focuses on production, characterisation, theory and electronic applications of organic
polymers, nanotubes and polymer nanotube composites. Potential applications of these materials such as in
displays using light emitting diodes and field emission devices are also actively studied. In particular,
investigations into individual organic molecules, which can be assembled to perform functions identical to
transistors, diodes and conductors, are being carried out.
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