Photochemical Studies of Multicomponent Molecular Devices inSolution and in Organized Assemblies

在有机动力学计划和办公室的支持下， 数学和物理科学的多学科活动 董事会，教授J.德文斯古斯特，小。和托马斯A.摩尔， 亚利桑那州立大学化学与生物化学系的教授 正在进行多组分的光化学研究 在溶液中和有组织的组件中的分子器件。 自然 光合作用反应中心是分子的光伏器件， 尺寸，以及决定反应操作的原理 中心建议合成光电开关的设计元素。 新型颜料和电子供体和受体部分，包括 官能化的巴克敏斯特富勒烯、芳族酰亚胺和胺，以及 卟啉衍生物，正被用于构建分子级 光电子器件、开关和逻辑门。 仿生天线系统 收集光并将激发能传递给这些分子 还将研究光化学和开关。 掺入 将通过连接两种方式来检查转换成更大规模设备的交换机， 分子物种与微电子电路，并通过纳入 脂质体中的分子光催化剂。 小德文斯·古斯特教授和托马斯A.摩尔， 亚利桑那州立大学化学和生物化学系， 由有机动力学计划和办公室支持， 数学和物理科学的多学科活动 分子和分子组装研究理事会 用来收集光能 模拟他们的研究， 自然界设计的结构主题， Gust和摩尔教授准备和研究光合作用的分子 它们吸收并利用光能。 通过适当地设计 分子系统，这些研究解决背后的基本现象 这种分子与光的相互作用， 分子尺度电子和计算设备的制备， 提供了光学处理的可能性， 信息的密度存储。

With the support of the Organic Dynamics Program and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate, Professor J. Devens Gust, Jr. and Professor Thomas A. Moore, of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University, are carrying out photochemical studies of multicomponent molecular devices in solution and in organized assemblies. Natural photosynthetic reaction centers are photovoltaic devices of molecular dimensions, and the principles dictating the operation of reaction centers suggest design elements for synthetic optoelectronic switches. New types of pigments and electron donor and acceptor moieties, including functionalized buckminsterfullerenes, aromatic imides and amines, and porphyrin derivatives, are being used to construct molecular-scale photovoltaics, switches, and logic gates. Biomimetic antenna systems that gather light and transport excitation energy to these molecular photovoltaics and switches will also be studied. Incorporation of switches into larger-scale devices will be examined both by interfacing molecular species with microelectronic circuits and by incorporation of molecular photovoltaics into liposomes. Professor J. Devens Gust, Jr. and Professor Thomas A. Moore, of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University, are supported by the Organic Dynamics Program and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate for their studies of molecules and molecular assemblies designed to harvest the energy of light. Modeling their studies after the structural motif designed by nature to carry out the process of photosynthesis, Professors Gust and Moore prepare and study molecules which absorb and use the energy of light. By appropriate design of molecular systems, these studies address the fundamental phenomena behind such interactions of molecules with light while paving the way for the preparation of molecular-scale electronic and computational devices which offer the possibility of optical processing and extraordinarily high density storage of information.