Redox Mediated Chiroptical Materials

该奖项授予纽约大学的James Canary教授，由化学部的先进材料和加工计划提供支持。有了这个奖项，铜配合物及其衍生物的电化学和手性性能将被研究作为分子为基础的开关。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。 这些研究的成果之一将是分子开关的发展，以取代液晶中的分子组装。 分子开关将使电子器件非常高效、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生培养和教育产生重大影响。在该奖项下，电化学手性材料将被合成，并在单电子氧化和还原后确定其光学性质。 由电化学手性材料发展而来的分子开关，如果能应用于计算机等电子器件，将使其具有高效、轻量和紧凑的特点。 该奖项下的本科生和研究生培训计划将提高材料化学计划的整体标准，并将提供该领域的未来科学家和工程师。

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.