The MOONRISE project aims to create new types of organic light-emitting materials. Usually, making these materials creates a lot of chemical waste. To solve this, the project team will take a single light-emitting molecule and change its colors and properties by attaching it to surfaces like gold, glass, or metal oxide to form self-assembled layers. By doing this, the electronics industry will not need to produce as many different chemicals, which will lower both waste and energy use. These new materials can be used to build OLED displays and special sensors that detect environmental pollutants. This research is a joint effort between Riga Technical University in Latvia, the University of South Bohemia in the Czech Republic, and Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania.
Project funding:
EU ERA-NET and other coordination measures
Project results:
The MOONRISE project aims to develop new organic light-emitting materials with properties that can be easily changed. The main goal is to control how these materials emit light, such as their color and how long they glow, by forming self-assembled layers on surfaces like gold, glass, or metal oxide. A key expected result is the ability to produce multiple colors of light from a single type of molecule just by changing how it groups together on these surfaces. The project team plans to use these new materials to build working prototype devices, such as energy-efficient LEDs, OLED displays, and sensors. By achieving this, the project will move the technology from a basic laboratory idea to a working prototype, advancing from Technology Readiness Level 3 to 4. Furthermore, the project expects to reduce the environmental impact of the electronics industry by lowering the amount of chemical waste and energy needed to produce different light-emitting molecules.
Period of project implementation: 2026-04-01 - 2029-03-31
Project coordinator: RIGA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Project partners: Kaunas University of Technology
