That would well and truly be the day when half of the trash that lays around in my own room is put to rest and I will save plenty of minutes and maybe a few hours of my life without having to untangle those bundle of wires. With the number of electronic gadgets that I have in my tiny little room and the number of additional chords that each of them come with, it is almost a daily routine for me to wake up and start figuring out which end belongs where. Now I do know that keeping them in a proper way would save all the trouble, but with this new spreadable OLED technology who needs to even care about sockets anymore!
If the Japanese who are working on this had their way, then very soon you can carry all your electronic gadgets as if they were just your notebook and this team, they around it gets one step better. Unlike in the case of your notebook, you will not even need to plug them in even once. This brand new green technology makes sure that you will have no more ‘Battery Low’ trouble and will not have to scamper around for a power socket any longer. This probably is the most useful technology that has come out of the green world in some time now.
The key to the work by Mitsubishi Chemical and Sumitomo Chemical lies in so-called spreadable electronics – liquids containing molecules of the type used in OLED screens. The two companies are taking the technology forward at a rapid pace indeed. Engineers at Mitsubishi Chemical see the possibility of using spreadable electronics to create both ultra-thin displays and solar panels at the same time. Because solar cells and OLEDs work on similar, but opposite, principles, it is possible to make materials that both take light and turn it into electricity and also do the opposite to provide a controllable display.
By the same token, researchers at Sumitomo Chemical have created a similar organic solution that can be sprayed onto a surface to create an OLED screen. Such a display could be on a rollable piece of plastic or even applied directly to a wall. The solar-charging properties described above mean it would never need to be plugged in. This really means a green tomorrow where all our fancy gadgets run on solar power and never need to be plugged in. You can bet your bottom penny that this technology would be beyond a hit!
