CAREER: Driving the Development of Functional Polymeric Materials with Innovative Chemical Synthesis: Creating New Opportunities in Research and Education

职业：通过创新化学合成推动功能高分子材料的发展：创造研究和教育的新机会

• 批准号: 0645563
• 负责人: Christopher Bielawski
• 金额: $ 61.28万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-15 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0645563&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Driving; Development; Functional; Polymeric

With this CAREER award, the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program is supporting the research and educational goals of Professor Christopher W. Bielawski of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Using multitopic carbenes as building blocks, Professor Bielawski will develop conductive polymers with stimuli-responsive characteristics. The research objective of this project is to integrate useful electronic properties into stimuli-responsive, structurally dynamic polymers. Adding an electronic component to such functional materials is a fundamental challenge that will contribute to current knowledge of molecular structure and bonding, chemical reactivity, and polymer synthesis. This challenge will be addressed by adapting multitopic carbenes capable of forming reversible adducts with organic and inorganic substrates into new polymerization reactions. The designed approach has an added benefit of enriching the chemistry of carbenes while opening a new dimension in macromolecular science.With the support of this CAREER award from the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program, Professor Bielwski will develop materials with properties that are expected to find a number of practical applications in electronic components and devices. For example, self-healing electronic circuits, reconfigurable electronic systems capable of rewiring themselves in response to externally applied stimuli, and new chemical methods for establishing electronic connections in molecular-scale circuits are anticipated results from this project. Inherent to the multidisciplinary nature of the proposed research, students working on this project will gain experience in a wide range of scientific concepts and techniques. Professor Bielawski is also actively involved in educational programs designed to train undergraduate and graduate students in organic, organometallic, and polymer chemistry. He will develop complimentary lecture and laboratory courses on the subject of macromolecular chemistry, and engage pre-college students from the state of Texas in polymer-related summer research programs.

有了这个职业奖，有机和高分子化学计划是支持克里斯托弗W教授的研究和教育目标。德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校化学和生物化学系的Bielawski博士说。使用多主题卡宾作为积木，Bielawski教授将开发具有刺激响应特性的导电聚合物。该项目的研究目标是将有用的电子特性整合到刺激响应的结构动态聚合物中。在这种功能材料中添加电子元件是一个根本性的挑战，这将有助于分子结构和键合，化学反应性和聚合物合成的现有知识。这一挑战将通过适应能够与有机和无机底物形成可逆加合物的多主题卡宾进入新的聚合反应来解决。设计的方法有一个额外的好处，丰富了卡宾的化学，同时开辟了一个新的维度在大分子科学。在这个职业生涯奖的支持下，从有机和大分子化学计划，教授Bielwski将开发材料的性能，预计将在电子元件和设备中找到一些实际应用。例如，自我修复的电子电路、能够响应外部施加的刺激而重新布线的可重新配置的电子系统以及在分子级电路中建立电子连接的新化学方法都是该项目的预期成果。固有的多学科性质的拟议研究，学生从事这个项目将获得广泛的科学概念和技术的经验。Bielawski教授还积极参与旨在培养有机，有机金属和聚合物化学的本科生和研究生的教育计划。他将开发关于大分子化学主题的免费讲座和实验室课程，并让德克萨斯州的大学预科生参与聚合物相关的夏季研究计划。