Redox Mediated Chiroptical Materials

该奖项授予纽约大学的James Canary教授，由化学学部的先进材料与加工项目提供支持。凭借该奖项，铜配位配合物及其具有电化学和手性性质的衍生物将作为基于分子的开关进行研究。电化学手性材料的合成以及这些材料在单电子氧化和还原后的光学性质的测定是该奖项的一部分。这些研究的一个成果将是开发分子开关来代替液晶中的分子组装。分子开关将使电子设备非常高效、轻便和紧凑。此外，该研究项目将对材料化学，特别是电化学手性材料的本科培养和教育产生重大影响。根据该奖项，将合成电化学手性材料，并在单电子氧化和还原后确定其光学性质。从电化学手性材料中开发的分子开关，如果应用于电子设备，如计算机，将使其高效、轻便、紧凑。该奖项下的本科和研究生培训项目将提高材料化学项目的整体水平，并将为该领域提供未来的科学家和工程师。

This award to Professor James Canary of New York University is supported by the Advanced Materials and Processing Program in the Chemistry Division. With this award, copper coordination complexes and their derivatives with electrochemical and chiral properties will be studied as molecule-based switches. Synthesis of electrochemical chiral materials and determination of optical properties of these materials after one-electron oxidation and reductions are parts of this award. One outcome of these studies will be development of molecular switches in place of molecular assemblies as in liquid crystals. Molecular switches will make the electronic devices very efficient, lightweight and compact. In addition, the research program will have substantial impact on undergraduate training and education of students in Materials Chemistry in general and electrochemical chiral materials in particular.Under this award, electrochemical chiral materials will be synthesized and their optical properties determined after one-electron oxidation and reductions. Molecular switches developed from the electrochemical chiral materials if incorporated in electronic devices such as computers will make them efficient, lightweight and compact. Undergraduate and graduate training programs under the award will enhance the overall standard of the Material Chemistry Program and will provide future scientists and engineers in this field.