Synthesis and Characterization of Open Framework Materials from Semiconducting Nanoclusters

化学部的先进材料计划将此奖项授予加州大学滨江分校，以开发新型开放式框架硫属化物材料，推进新的合成和结构概念，并更好地理解自组装过程和主客体相互作用。 凭借该奖项，冯教授将研究有机分子与半导体前体之间的相互作用，以产生更大的团簇，并将这些具有可控表面性质的团簇组织成三维有序框架。这些团簇及其三维组装体的性质将通过改变其无机和有机组分之间的组成和相互作用来控制。 更大纳米晶体的合成可能导致更好地理解分子和胶体纳米晶体之间的材料转变，这反过来将有助于控制半导体材料合成中的成核和生长过程。研究将在半导体纳米团簇和3-三维有序框架，以提高对半导体材料的可编程合成和组装的理解，这将在磁和电光器件中具有潜在的应用。 固态和材料化学的教学和研究培训将提供给研究生和本科生与此奖项。

The Advanced Materials Program in the Chemistry Division makes this award to University of California Riverside to develop novel open framework chalcogenide materials to advance new synthetic and structural concepts, and to better understand self-assembly processes and host-guest interactions. With this award, Professor Feng will study interactions between organic molecules and the semiconductor nanocrystal precursors to generate larger clusters, and to organize these clusters with controlled surface properties into 3-dimensional ordered frameworks. Properties of these clusters and their 3-D assemblies will be controlled by changing the composition and interactions between their inorganic and organic components. The synthesis of larger nanocrystals may lead to better understanding of material transition between molecules and colloidal nanocrystals, which in turn will help to control nucleation and growth processes in the synthesis of semiconductor materials.Research studies will be carried out in the synthesis and characterization of semiconductor nanoclusters and 3-dimensional ordered frameworks to enhance the understanding of nanocrystal synthesis and assembly of semiconductor materials, which will have potential applications in magnetic and electrooptic devices. Instructional and research training in solid state and materials chemistry will be provided to graduate and undergraduate students with this award.