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Keynote: Colorless Liquid Polyimides for Flexible Displays Applications

Abstract

Polyimides are highly sought materials for various displays applications. Their high thermal and chemical stability makes them well studied and suited for flexible top emission display substrate applications. However, current OLED display applications requires colorless polyimides given the market’s interest flexible and bezel-free full display smartphones. There are a number of strategies that may be used to obtain clear polyimides, however, balancing low optical with high thermal and mechanical properties is significantly more challenging. I will discuss our latest development of colorless polyimides for flexible displays applications.

About the Speaker

Academic History

• B.S. (Honors) Chemistry - Ithaca College -1990
• PhD in Inorganic Chemistry - University of California, San Diego 1995
• Postdoctoral Fellow – MIT 1995-1998

DuPont – 1998-present

• Technical Expertise:  Organometallic, polymer and materials chemistry; design and synthesis of organometallic and organic materials for optical applications; design of colorless polyimides for displays applications.

Other Professional Activities: Nora has served ACS at a local and national level since 2000 and she is a Fellow of the ACS. Some of her leadership roles include Alternate Councilor of ACS Delaware Local Section (2007-2019), Councilor of Division of Inorganic Chemistry (2000-2002) ; ACS National Meeting Symposium Organizer(2004, 2015-2018); Division of Inorganic Chemistry Program Chair (2010-present); ACS Science Coach (2013-2018); Member of the Editorial Advisory Board Member of the journal ACS Central Science (2015-2018).  She has also chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (2007) and initiated the Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar on Organometallic Chemistry (2006-2007).