CAREER: Synthetically Tuned Luminophoric Materials: 3D Displays, Solar Energy Conversion and Beyond

无机，生物无机和有机化学计划的职业奖支持普林斯顿大学Stefan Bernhard教授构建发光过渡金属基材料的工作。 光化学和电化学性质的平行合成技术和平行筛选技术将以光活性材料的光转换效率和稳定性为目标。刚性笼结构将用于抑制非辐射衰变过程。 将采用组合技术来筛选用于发光二极管和太阳能转换应用的新型配位基材料的激发态性质。离子型过渡金属发光体将被研究用于发光二极管的开发，具有介晶尾部的手性金属络合物将被用于产生不对称发射（圆偏振发光）。材料与长寿命的激发态将被确定和检查的电子转移淬灭与氧化还原介导的试剂，探索光解水裂解气体产品的高通量分析。普林斯顿高中的一个让学生接触光电子学的推广项目将扩展到其他学校，对小学的访问将扩大到新泽西的城市地区。改进的有机发光二极管在电子显示技术中的应用日益复杂。 调整金属中心的发色团的激发态性质，以修改发射波长，电荷传输行为和吸收曲线是这个项目的核心。

This CAREER award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor Stefan Bernhard at Princeton University to construct luminophoric transition metal based materials. Parallel synthetic techniques and parallel screening techniques for photochemical and electrochemical properties will target photoconversion efficiency and stability of photoactive materials. Rigid cage structures will be utilized to inhibit non-radiative decay processes. Combinatorial techniques will be employed to screen the excited state properties of new coordination based materials for both light emitting diode and solar energy conversion applications. Ionic transition metal luminophores will be investigated for light emitting diode development, chiral metal complexes with mesogenic tails will be employed to generate dissymmetric emission (circularly polarized luminescence). Materials with long lived excited states will be identified and examined for electron transfer quenching with redox mediating reagents to explore photolytic cleavage of water using high throughput analysis of gaseous products. An outreach program at Princeton High School that exposes students to optoelectronics will be extended to additional schools, and visits to elementary schools will be expanded to urban New Jersey sites.Improved organic light emitting diodes have found increasingly sophisticated application in electronic display technologies. Tuning excited state properties of metal centered chromophores in order to modify emission wavelength, charge transport behavior, and absorption profile is central to this project.