CAREER: Functional Nanoscale Architectures by Self-Assembly

该项目题为“职业：自组装的功能纳米尺度结构”，旨在通过教育和研究目标的整合，教育学生以化学方法接触纳米科学。这项研究的主旨是设计新型的单分散芳烃齐聚物，这种低聚物可以将自己折叠成明确的构象。这些多聚体的合成将被扩大，以产生8到20个亚单位长的单分散低聚物。由于其独特的结构，这些低聚物可以提供新的基序在脂双层中和在整体中自组装。这些低聚物将作为一维半导体和纳米级压电元件进行研究。整合在研究计划中，是开始现代化的化学课程，以具有纳米技术的化学元素。建议为低年级本科生开设一个高级有机化学实验室，该实验室将使用有机合成和自组装作为教授聚合物结构/功能关系、自组装/表面图案化和液晶性概念的工具。一些为本科教育创建的基于网络的多媒体模块和纳米科学实验室将被用来接触到纽约地区高中中代表不足的群体。该项目将通过一个整合了教育和研究目标的化学项目来培养未来的科学家和工程师。教育目标将创建基于网络的多媒体模块和实验室实验，以开始本科化学课程的现代化和振兴。本科生课程改革中使用的一些元素将用于纽约地区高中代表不足的群体。这项提案中的研究目标将培养研究生和本科生进行尖端、跨学科的研究，设计、合成和研究自组织成新结构的新分子。这些独特的低聚物可以作为纳米级的电线、开关和能量转换装置。这项提议由材料研究司和化学司共同出资。

The project entitled CAREER: Functional Nanoscale Architectures by Self-Assembly aims to educate students in chemical approaches to nanoscience through an integration of educational and research objectives. The thrust of the research is to design new types of monodisperse oligomers of overcrowded aromatics that can fold themselves into well-defined conformations. The synthesis of these multimers will be expanded to create monodisperse oligomers 8 to 20 subunits long. Due to their unique structure these oligomers could provide new motifs for self-assembly in lipid bilayers and in bulk. These oligomers will be investigated as one dimensional semiconductors and nanoscale piezoelectric elements. Integrated within the research plan, is begin to modernize the chemistry curriculum to have the chemical elements of nanotechnology. Proposed is an advanced organic chemistry lab for junior level undergraduates that would use organic synthesis and self-assembly as a tool to teach the concepts of polymer structure/function relationships, self-assembly/surface patterning, and liquid crystallinity. Some of the web-based, multimedia modules and nanoscience laboratories created for undergraduate education will be used to reach underrepresented groups in New York area high schools.This project will educate future scientists and engineers through a chemistry program that integrates both educational and research objectives. The educational objectives will create web-based, multimedia modules and laboratory experiments to begin the modernization and revitalization of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Some of the elements used in the undergraduate curriculum reform will be used to reach underrepresented groups in New York area high schools. The research objectives in this proposal will train graduate and undergraduate students in cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that designs, synthesizes, and studies new molecules that self-organize into novel structures. These unique oligomers could act as nanoscale wires, switches, and devices for energy conversion. This proposal is co-funded by the Division of Materials Research and the Chemistry Division.