made in Greece

When your country has so huge problems that everyone is talking about, it is natural to affect you in many aspects. I'm sick of hearing bad news all the time about our economic, politic and social crisis plus; i'm tired of seeing people being pessimistic even about the little things.

I believe from every obstacle, there is something possitive to learn. My moto is "everything happens for a reason".So in order to overcome our problems, as a society, we have to revise our tensions, act smart and innovate to prevent our future problems.

While the economic crisis has shaken the Greek society, researchers from the Laboratory of AUTH and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, create organic electronics (ie, flexible material with energy efficiency of polymer) made in Greece.

The goal is to provide the raw material from greek hands to get a low cost in mass production of a range of innovative products as new technology: tent panels saving solar energy, handbags and clothing that will charge electrical devices, photovoltaic smart new-generation that are cheaper and more efficient, electronic paper, flexible displays for all types of devices and literally hundreds of other products.

The RoleMak program (Reinforce Organic Electronics Research Potential in Central Makedonia) is worth 2.74 million funded 100% by the European Union, provides all this and more importantly to set up small production units of flexible materials to be manufactured cheaply in Greece and exported as finished products such as jacket with printed electronics which will keep the body warm, or new-generation photovoltaics that will be cheaper and more efficient, or as feedstock to produce massive screens, electronics, etc.

"Organic electronics will change the way we communicate in the coming period.This is a technology that we know and we can exploit. It is estimated that the past year the market of organic electronics has brought gains 1 billion and by 2016 will bring 25 billion, "explains the director of Nanotechnology Laboratory of the Aristotle University, Professor Stergios Logothetidis.

source: http://logothetidis.wordpress.com/