Organic Electrochemistry

这个项目，在分析和表面化学计划的支持下，专注于新型电活性低聚物，线性聚合物和树枝状聚合物的合成和表征。 本计画将设计并合成具有新结构的有机材料。 米勒教授和他的学生在明尼苏达大学将使用光谱，电导率，电化学，石英晶体微量天平，阻抗，差示扫描量热法，X射线衍射和流变学测量在这个多学科的工作。 将制备新的聚合物薄膜，其具有电活性、导电性和光电导性或电发射性。 这些薄膜的响应吸附的蒸汽将其特征在于与开发新的蒸汽传感器的目的。 具有电化学活性并表现出光电导的新型有机材料有许多潜在的应用。 明尼苏达大学的米勒教授和他的学生将制备和表征预计具有这些特性的新化合物。 广泛的仪器方法将用于确定这些新化合物的电化学和光化学活性。 这些新材料的潜在用途的一个例子将是制备对化学蒸气敏感的薄膜。 新的化学传感器的蒸汽将开发的化合物，具有必要的敏感性，目标分析物。

This project, supported in the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program, focusses on the synthesis and characterization of novel electroactive oligomers, linear polymers, and dendrimers. Organic materials that have new architectures will be designed and synthesized in this project. Professor Miller and his students at the University of Minnesota will use spectroscopic, conductivity, electrochemical, quartz crystal microbalance, impedance, differential scanning calorimetry, x-ray diffraction, and rheological measurements in this multidisciplinary work. New polymeric thin films will be prepared that are electroactive, electrical conductive, and photoconducting or electroemissive. The responsiveness of these thin films to adsorbed vapors will be characterized with the aim of developing new vapor sensors. There are many potential applications for new organic materials that are electrochemically active and that exhibit photoconduction. Professor Miller and his students at the University of Minnesota will prepare and characterize new compounds that are predicted to have these properties. A wide range of instrumental methods will be used to determine the electrochemical and photochemical activity of these new compounds. One example of a potential use for these new materials will be in preparing thin films that are sensitive to chemical vapors. New chemical sensors for vapors will be developed for compounds that possess the requisite sensitivity to target analytes.