Lab-to-Market: Commercializing Quantum dots (QDs) Technologies by Innovation
(Source: NajingTech, Hangzhou, China) As part of the Lab-to-Market initiative, the innovative synthesis technology promotes the commercialization of quantum dots materials in the fields of lighting and display. For contribution to the development of quantum dots for display applications, Dr. Xiaogang Peng is receiving a "2019 Special Recognition Award" from Society for Information Display.
HANGZHOU, China, Feb. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Over the past 20 years, scientists have achieved a green and efficient synthesis route of quantum dots (QDs) materials which are crystals of a fluorescent semiconductor material with a diameter of as few as 10 to 100 atoms (2-10 nm). They are used as light emitters, labels for imaging molecules, light absorbers in solar cells, etc., such as photoluminescent devices, i.e., quantum dot light-converting device (QLCD); electroluminescent devices, i.e., quantum dots light-emitting diode (QLED).
On the basis of Prof. Peng Xiaogang's work related to a green synthesis route of nanocrystals, e.g., Nature 2000, 404(6773), 59; Nano Lett. 2001, 1(6), 333; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123(1), 183; Chem. Mater. 2003, 15(14), 2854; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125(41), 12567, with over sixteen thousand publication citations, more and more researchers began to study the "green synthesis" of QDs in the lab, and later some of them devoted to commercialization of QDs materials. For example, QD Vision was founded in greater Boston area in 2004 aiming for QDs-based lighting and display products, and later received "Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards" in 2014 from United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). In the earlier 2002, Arkansas-based NN-labs started to commercialize the work done by Prof. Peng, which was bought out by NNCrystal US Corporation in 2011.
In the past decades, with the booming of the economics of China, Prof. Peng created another startup in his homeland for commercializing QDs in 2009, Najing Technology (NajingTech, Hangzhou, China), the parent company of NNCrystal US Corporation (NN-Labs LLC). NajingTech with the basic patents in QDs materials and numbers of patents in devices quickly becomes one of top-tier players in QDs-based commercialized products in the world together with QD Vision (Samsung bought QD Vision's intellectual properties for $70M in 2016), Nanoco Technologies (UK) and Nanosys (US). To satisfy a huge potential in market demand of lighting and display products around the world, NajingTech has developed different types of QDs-based products. For example, in 2018, QD-Film products were sold to a US-based Lincoln Technology Solutions (LTS) company as well as QDs-based products to a Chinese TV manufacturer Hisense for the US market (2016-2017). Moreover, in 2014, the company devoted most of energy to a new project: QLED, based on the prototype of Peng's recent work "solution-processed, high-performance light-emitting diodes based on quantum dots" (Nature, 2014, 515 (7525), 96), and thus selected as "Top 10 Chinese Science Progress" by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.
In recognition of Peng's contributions, he was just selected to receive a "2019 Special Recognition Award" by Society for Information Display (SID) with the award citation "For his contribution to the development of solution-processable quantum dots for display applications".
Notes: The Society for Information Display (SID) is an industry organization for displays, generally electronic displays such as televisions and computer monitors. SID was founded in 1962, and headquarter is located in Campbell, California.
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