Organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and organic solar cells (OSC) based on polymeric materials are considered to exhibit a great potential for the development of novel solar power and energy-efficient display and light technologies.
cynora focuses on the research of novel semiconducting polymers, which, due to their intrinsic photophysical properties, are supposed to be used as white polymer light-emitting diodes (WPLEDs).
cynora technologies provide the synthesis of optoelectronic materials on a multi-gram scale.
With its state-of-the-art laboratories in the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, cynora is situated right in the centre of one of the leading Technology areas in Europe.
Welcome to cynora.
Imagine a transparent plastic foil illuminating your house when its dark outside. Imagine another foil, charging your laptop or your cellphone when the sun is shining. With Organic Semiconductors, these and many more applications are just one step away.
We at cynora dedicate our time to make all this possible: the development of new, cheap and easy processable optoelectronic materials is our business.
Whether you want to learn more about the thriving world of Organic Lightemitting Diodes and Organic Solar Cells or to get in touch with our company, this is the right site. Just point your mouse at the menu bar and choose your favorite topic. If you want to check whats new with cynora: scroll down and see for yourself.
cynora is hiring!
November 2011: cynora is looking for new staff members! Interested in a job in the thriving world of printed organic electronics? Send us your curiculum vitae! Right now, we are looking for professionals as well as for student co-workers. To this point, we have some specific job advertisements, but we also highly encourage you to send us your application by your own.
For more info, head over to Positions and Applications.
Picture of the Month
November 2011: Presenting our brand new "picture of the month"!
This month has got one shiny fellow for you: Over night, a fantastic blue-white emitter crystallized in this flask. Black light was used to encourage our complex to glow in his emission color.
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cynora's eleven
November 2011: cynora is getting bigger: We welcome three new coworkers boosting our R&D team.
The new scientists bring their broad experience, enthusiasm and bright ideas in our organic light-emitting diode and our organic solar cell department. They will join forces with the rest of the staff to bring optoelectronic materials to a whole new level. We are now 11 scientists working for a bright (OLED) an energetic (OPV) future.
Announcement: Picture of the Month
October 2011: To celebrate our recent award of the "Picture of the Month" (by the local newspaper BNN) and to share our beautiful pictures with you, we'll start cynora's own monthly gallery. Starting this october, we'll present you some impression right from the vault.
This month we show you some of our OLED-emitting materials, spreading their colorful light under UV-irradiation.
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Photonik: Visolas and cynora develop new laser dyes
October 2011: German professional journal "Photonik" published an article about cynora's newest corporation just recently: We collaborate with Visolas, a start-up from Karlsruhe. Using our experience in the development of emitting materials for OLEDs, we're currently developing new laser dyes for flexible, printed Organic Lasers. Thomas Woggon from Visolas describes how one can manage to build these devices and for which application they are good for.
[Link: The Homepage of our partners from Visolas]
[Link: Read the article online here]
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Miss September: local newspaper BNN declares cynora made "Picture of the Month".
September 2011: The science-department of Karlsruhe's biggest and most read newspaper, the Badische Neueste Nachrichten (short: BNN), did a coverage about our very own organic solarcell research activities. In addition to this, they awarded us "picture of the month". The picture shows some of brightly luminescent emitting materials shining under UV-light. [german newspaper].
Click here to read the pdf-version of the article: Download.
[The newspapers web presence]
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Silicon Valley? Nano Valley!
September 2011. cynora joins the Nano Valley initiative where academia and innovative enterprises collaborate.
[Link cynora profile]
[Link nanovalley english main page]
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Press Release: cynora joins the MiG family
June 2011. [german press release] Mit der Karlsruher cynora GmbH holen die erfolgreichen Fonds MIG 10 und MIG 11 erneut ein aufstrebendes Technologieunternehmen in die MIG Familie. cynora hat sich auf die Entwicklung von optoelektronischen Materialien für Leuchtdioden und Solarzellen spezialisiert und wurde bei der Transaktion durch die Hamburger Corporate Finance Beratung CatCap GmbH begleitet.
Click here to download the whole press release as a pdf-version. [Download]
Press Release (March 2011)
March 2011. [german press release] Das Karlsruher Hightech-Unternehmen cynora GmbH erhält eine Finanzierung durch ein Schweizer Family Office zur Weiterentwicklung ihrer optoelektronischen Materialien für Leuchtdioden und Solarzellen.
Die von cynora entwickelten und patentierten organischen Stoffe lassen sich durch Druck- und Beschichtungsverfahren in großem Durchsatz verarbeiten. Hierdurch soll eine kostengünstige Serienfertigung von Leucht- oder Photovoltaikfolien ermöglicht werden, mit denen sich elektrischer Strom in Licht beziehungsweise Licht in Strom umwandeln lässt. [Click on the titel to read more]
cynora On Air: Printed Electronics
March 2011: On the air. Tobias Grab explains what printed electronics is all about. This video was made during the CyberChampions competition 2010.
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ClickPhos-Paper Published.
March 2011: New publication released. This month, we published a paper in the renowned European Journal of Organic Chemistry. If you got a subscription to EJOC, you can use the documents DOI to read it.
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CyberChampion 2010
November 2010: cynora declared CyberChampion. At the 2010 award show of the CyberForum, cynora is given the Special Award of the Department of Trade and Industry of Baden-Württemberg. It is dedicated for particular creative ideas and innovative developments. [Click on the title to learn more.]
Innovation AveNEW Winner
January 2010: New ideas in lab automation. The Association for Laboratory Automation declared cynora winner of LabAutomation 2010 Innovation AveNEW. [Click on the title to read more]