L'équipe GenesInk

GenesInk develops conductive and semi-conductive inks to enable new functionalities such as transparency, flexibility, and stretchability for the consumer electronics market. What makes GenesInk unique is its capability to solve technological issues such as reduce form factor, increase the tracks finesse and electrical performance resulting in highly functional, lightweight, and aesthetic electronic devices.

GenesInk is looking to integrate new European consortia to implement its nanoinks into energy generation and storage applications. we propose to offer our know-how and expertise in the conception of main nanomaterials for the different layers in PV (HTL, ETL, transparent electrode and top electrode). GenesInk is also aiming to develop new Ag nanoinks compatible with silicon-based photovoltaics.

If our expertise is of interest for you and you have a project idea in mind do not hesitate to contact our R&I team with high expertise in European proposals preparation and projects management: vanessa.douet@genesink.com; benjamin.dhuiege@genesink.com ; rita.faddoul@genesink.com.

GenesInk develops conductive and semi-conductive inks to enable new functionalities such as transparency, flexibility, and stretchability for the consumer electronics market. What makes GenesInk unique is its capability to solve technological issues such as reduce form factor, increase the tracks finesse and electrical performance resulting in highly functional, lightweight, and aesthetic electronic devices.

GenesInk is looking to integrate new European consortia to implement its nanoinks into 5G and integrated antennas in connected objects.

If our expertise is of interest for you and you have a project idea in mind do not hesitate to contact our R&I team with high expertise in European proposals preparation and management : vanessa.douet@genesink.com; benjamin.dhuiege@genesink.com ; rita.faddoul@genesink.com.

• The research is part of the European MADRAS project which will enable mass production of this type of electronics, known as OLAE, for accelerated time-to-market.
• Seen as a viable alternative to conventional electronics, OLAE devices include organic electronics printed on flexible surfaces such as plastic or paper.
• Their applications range from producing smart packaging, roll-up displays and flexible solar cells to single-use diagnostic devices and printed batteries along with other innovations.

France, October 8th 2020.- The European MADRAS project aims to develop new materials and manufacturing processes for scalable mass production of organic electronics devices, also known as OLAE devices, integrated into plastic parts for accelerated time-to-market.

Progress in printed electronics and materials has paved the way for products with new features, lighter, thinner and more flexible. This has driven the development of the technology and the spread of applications for a range of sectors.

Organic devices are seen as a viable alternative to conventional inorganic conductors, such as copper and silicon. Their operation integrates organic electronics printed on flexible surfaces such as plastics or paper for numerous applications, including producing smart packaging, roll-up displays, flexible solar cells, single-use diagnostic devices and printed batteries along with other innovations.

In the words of Rosa Araujo, a project manager at Eurecat and MADRAS coordinator, MADRAS aims to “demonstrate an improvement in OLAE devices by establishing a robust alternative manufacturing methodology and an innovative approach in a scalable competitive process.”

The project “proposes two products for the people authentication market and smart manufacturing, which will showcase a shift towards digitisation and the Internet of Things so as to contribute to the sustainable deployment of smart products for consumer use,” she notes. These products “belong to the global emerging trend of structural electronics with very large addressable markets such as the automotive industry, healthcare and many others.”

In the MADRAS project “we will work on developing transparent conductive materials which will allow for building stable printed devices with longer lifetimes,” points out Eugenia Martínez-Ferrero, the project’s technical coordinator and head of the Photonics line in Eurecat’s Functional Printing and Integrated Systems Unit. “These new features will make it possible to make more exciting and lower-cost integrated products.”

The MADRAS project will use In-Mould Electronics, also known as plastronics, to enhance the device integration process, increasing resistance to humidity and wear and tear and adding custom-made connectors, and additionally as a manufacturing process for the advanced materials with better conductive and resistant properties proposed in the project. This technology combines functional printing of electronics and hybridisation of electronic components with traditional plastic transformation processes, such as thermoforming and injection, to create plastic parts with electronic functions.

The innovative technology developed as part of the project will be implemented in two printed electronics demonstrators integrated into plastic parts. Specifically, it will be demonstrated with a flexible geolocation label for the packaging sector and a biometric photosensor which will be employed to identify users of an electric mobility service.

The MADRAS project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme and coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre. It involves 11 other partners from Spain (Eticas Research and Consulting, TECNOPACKAGING, UNE and the Cooltra Group), France (GenesInk, Arjowiggins and Uwinloc), Denmark (infinityPV), the Netherlands (TNO) and the Czech Republic (COC and University of Pardubice).

With the increasing European demand for renewable and greener energies, GenesInk develops conductive and semi-conductive nanoinks sustainably for you to create devices of tomorrow and meet the energies market demand (solar power and CO₂ conversion, energy and batteries).

Our portfolio encompasses nanomaterials for electron and hole transport layers (ZnO, WO_x, NiOx), transparent conductive electrodes (based on Ag nanowires) as well as catalysers for anodes and cathodes in energy conversion devices (Ag, Cu, ZnO, MgO). GenesInk provides know-how and expertise from synthesis, formulation, and industrialization processes on several printing methods and onto flexible and/or transparent substrates.