Here's an interesting read about the "new" (improved?) DuPont. Thanks to jtj on the HELX thread.
technologyreview.com
TR: Are displays, like those made of organic light-emitting diodes, another big potential growth area for DuPont?
HOLLIDAY: Major. It's clear, people need better displays. They need less energy consumption. In addition, they need them made out of plastics so they won't break. We work with Uniax, a little company we bought out on the West Coast from Alan Heeger, who won a Nobel Prize for chemistry last year. DuPont holds a majority stake in Polar Vision, an innovative optical components and lamination services provider serving the display industry. And we've ventured with RiTEK Display Technology in Taiwan to produce OLED [organic light-emitting diode] glass panels exclusively for DuPont Displays using proprietary technology from DuPont and Uniax. So we're putting together a consortium of folks that we think can turn out a display that's polymer based—far brighter, lighter, flexible, break resistant and much more energy efficient than the current technology. We showed prototypes at the last major technical show. We'll have products in the marketplace next year.
I'll never forget a meeting with Bill Gates three years ago, talking about what we could do together. Basically, what he said was, "I need a display people can read. Because even at Microsoft, if it's two pages, we print." And so if we could get a display that's so good you would prefer it over paper and like it enough to even want to sit back and read it in bed, you can. That's going to happen, and we can play a role in that gigantic market.
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