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Sealed with a film
Singapore research produces protection from moisture and oxygen
A barrier technology from Singapore A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) protects sensitive devices like organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and solar cells from moisture and oxygen effectively.
The IMRE patented film has a very high reported water vapour barrier performance, which is most beneficial to plastic electronics whose sensitive organic materials are easily degraded by water vapour and oxygen.
IMRE’s innovation plug defects in the barrier films using nanoparticles, which not only seals the defects but also actively reacts with and retains moisture and oxygen. Tests have shown the new film is three orders of magnitude or 1,000 times more impervious than existing technologies. This means a more extended lifetime for plastic electronic devices such as solar cells and flexible displays that use these high end films.
