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

无机化学、生物无机化学和金属有机化学项目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、表征和反应将发光金属络合物结合到聚合物骨架中的杂化材料。导电聚合物可以很容易地传递电荷，而发光金属络合物具有尖锐的发射性能(镧系元素)、合成调色(Ir和铂材料)和更高的潜在效率，两者之间存在着合作关系。霍利迪博士参与了一个面向当地高中教师及其学生的研究型外展项目，允许这两个群体参与暑期研究。这一外展计划还允许参与教师开放使用合成设备，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新的新生研究计划研究流程并支持网络仪器的使用，利用了之前NSF在本科生研究协作(URC)计划中的资助。

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.