CAREER: Liquid Crystal Imprinting

西华盛顿大学的David Patrick博士获得了教师早期职业发展计划奖，该奖项由化学学部的先进材料和加工项目提供支持。研究的重点将是使用热营养液晶溶剂来制备具有定制和定向构建块的有机薄膜。这种液晶压印也将用于制备双组分可重写复合薄膜，并在薄膜中定制构建块的排列。该技术在由激光、磁场和电场控制的可重写薄膜中具有潜在的应用前景。教育计划的一部分是修订和现代化本科分析化学课程，选择本科生积极参与学年的兼职研究和夏季的全职研究。学生将有机会发表和展示他们的发现。本研究将制备具有有序取向官能团的薄膜并对其进行表征。这些具有电光和热性能的材料将在可重写存储器和存储设备中得到应用。此外，该项目的跨学科方法将为本科大学的本科生提供材料合成，加工和应用方面的知识和培训。

This Faculty Early Career Development Program award to Dr. David Patrick of Western Washington University is supported by the Advanced Materials and Processing Program in the Chemistry Division. The focus of the research will be the use of thermotrophic liquid crystal solvents to prepare organic thin films with tailored and oriented building blocks. This liquid crystal imprinting will also be used to prepare two component re-writable composite films with tailored alignments of building blocks in the films. The technology has potential applications in re-writable films controlled by lasers, and magnetic and electric fields. Part of the educational plan is to revise and modernize undergraduate analytical chemistry curriculum with active participation of selected undergraduate students in part time research during the academic year and full time during the summer. Students will have opportunity to publish and present their findings.Thin films with ordered and oriented functional groups will be prepared and characterized under this research. These materials with electrooptic and thermal properties will have applications in re-writable memory and storage devices. In addition, the interdisciplinary approaches of the project will provide knowledge and training to undergraduate students from the undergraduate university in materials synthesis, processing and applications.