Materials World Network: U.S./ Australia Cooperation in Organic Semiconductors

这项授予康奈尔大学的材料世界网络奖旨在研究使用超临界二氧化碳（scCO2）合成和新型沉积有机电子材料，并评估这些新材料和工艺在光电器件（如发光器件、场效应晶体管和光伏器件）中的应用。该奖项由材料研究部的电子材料项目共同资助和管理，将支持康奈尔大学科学家和墨尔本澳大利亚团队之间的合作研究。提出的研究的意义在于，如果成功，科学开发将是一种环境友好的方式，有机半导体器件的特性和特征是目前无法通过使用普通有机溶剂处理这些材料而无法实现的。计划中的研究受益于这个国际团队的互补技能，其中墨尔本团队将为合作带来他们卓越的合成能力，提供适合用scCO2加工的材料，而康奈尔团队将提供材料性能评估方面的专业知识以及他们使用scCO2制造设备的独特经验。这项合作结合了墨尔本大学的Andrew Holmes教授和康奈尔大学的George Malliaras教授和Christopher Ober教授的互补技能。霍姆斯小组在有机电子学的成功实现中发挥了重要作用。该项目设想康奈尔大学和墨尔本大学的pi每年进行一次交流，并进行更长时间的同事交流。这些团体之间的联系将通过人员交换和定期安排的视频会议来实现。由此产生的可转移技能将在个别同事的交流访问期间与各机构分享。该项目将为材料化学、材料科学和应用物理领域的本科生、研究生和博士后提供高度跨学科的教育，并有望引起工业界的强烈兴趣。

This Materials World Network award to Cornell University is to study the synthesis and novel deposition of organic electronic materials using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) and to evaluate these new materials and processes in optoelectronic devices such as light emitting devices, field effect transistors and photovoltaic devices. The award co-funded and managed by the Electronic Materials program in the Division of Materials Research will support the collaborative research between scientists at Cornell University and the Australian team at Melbourne. The significance of the proposed research is that if successful, the science developed would be an environmentally friendly way, organic semiconductor device properties and features that are presently inaccessible by the processing of these materials using normal organic solvents. The planned research benefits from the complementary skills of this international team in which the Melbourne group will bring to the collaboration their exceptional synthetic capabilities to provide materials suited for processing with scCO2 while those groups at Cornell will provide expertise in the evaluation of materials properties and their unique experience in the use of scCO2 to fabricate devices. This collaborative effort combines the complementary skills of Professor Andrew Holmes at the University of Melbourne and Professors George Malliaras and Christopher Ober of Cornell University. The Holmes group has played an important role in the successful realization of organic electronics. The program envisages exchanges of the Cornell and Melbourne PIs annually and a longer exchange of co-workers. Connections between the groups will take place through exchange of personnel and regularly scheduled videoconferences. The resulting transferable skills will be shared with each institution during the exchange visits of individual co-workers. The program will provide a highly interdisciplinary education to undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students in the fields of materials chemistry, materials science and applied physics and is expected to generate strong interest from industry.