CAREER: Liquid Crystal Imprinting

这项授予西华盛顿大学David Patrick博士的教职早期职业发展计划奖得到了化学部先进材料和加工计划的支持。研究的重点将是使用热致液晶溶剂来制备具有定制和取向构建块的有机薄膜。这种液晶印迹还将用于制备两种成分可重写的复合膜，这些复合膜中的积木具有定制的对准。这项技术在激光控制的可重写薄膜以及磁场和电场中具有潜在的应用。教育计划的一部分是修订和更新本科分析化学课程，选定的本科生在学年期间积极参与部分时间研究，并在暑期积极参与全日制研究。学生将有机会发表和展示他们的发现。在这项研究中，将制备具有有序和定向功能基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.