CAREER: Luminescent Conducting Metallopolymers: Synthesis and Fundamental Studies Towards Optoelectronic Applications

无机，生物无机和有机化学计划支持德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的布拉德利霍利迪教授合成，表征和混合材料的反应性，将发光金属络合物纳入聚合物主链。 从导电聚合物和发光金属络合物获得合作关系，导电聚合物可以容易地穿梭电荷，发光金属络合物提供尖锐的发射特性（镧系元素）、合成颜色调节（铱和铂材料）和更高的潜在效率的优点。 霍利迪博士参与了一个以研究为基础的推广计划，以当地高中教师和他们的学生，让这两个群体参加夏季研究。 这一推广方案还使参与的教师能够公开获得合成设备，这些设备可以借用并带到各自的学校使用。 这项推广活动通过建立一个新的新生研究计划研究流和支持网络支持的仪器使用，利用了以前NSF在本科生研究合作（URC）计划中的资金。

The Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports Professor Bradley Holliday of the University of Texas at Austin for the synthesis, characterization and reactivity of hybrid materials that incorporate luminescent metal complexes into polymer backbones. A cooperative relationship is obtained from the conductive polymers, which can readily shuttle charge, and the luminescent metal complexes, which offer the advantages of sharp emission properties (lanthanides), synthetic color tuning (iridium and platinum materials), and higher potential efficiencies. Dr. Holliday is involved in a research-based outreach program to local high school teachers and their students that allows both groups to participate in summer research. This outreach program also allows the participating teachers to have open access to synthetic equipment which can be borrowed and taken to their respective schools for use. This outreach activity leverages previous NSF funding in the Undergraduate Research Collaboratives (URC) Program by establishing a new Freshman Research Initiative research stream and supporting cyber-enabled instrument usage.