ortho-Phenylene Oligomers and Graphene Nanoribbons

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。由于下一代技术需要在纳米尺度上对具有不同寻常共轭特征的新型有机材料的电荷和能量进行操纵，因此本项目侧重于两类新型共轭低聚物的合成和表征。具体来说，将开发方法来合成邻苯二烯低聚物，它将被用作氧化平面化到石墨烯基纳米结构的底物。该项目既包括合成方法的发展，也包括在电子结构、构象行为和超分子自组装方面对所得材料的表征。有了这个奖项，有机和大分子化学项目支持俄亥俄州牛津市迈阿密大学化学和生物化学系的Christopher S. Hartley教授的研究。哈特利教授的研究重点是制备和研究具有特殊电子结构的有机分子。这些材料在光伏、有机电子和单分子器件等方面具有巨大的应用潜力。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project focuses on the synthesis and characterization of two new classes of conjugated oligomers, as the next-generation technologies require the manipulation of charge and energy of new organic materials with unusual conjugated features on the nanoscale. Specifically, methods will be developed for the synthesis of ortho-phenylene oligomers, which will be used as substrates for oxidative planarization to graphene-based nanostructures. The project encompasses both the development of synthetic methods and the characterization of the resulting materials in terms of their electronic structure, conformational behavior, and supramolecular self-assembly.With this award, the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program is supporting the research of Professor Christopher S. Hartley of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Professor Hartley's research efforts focus on the preparation and study of organic molecules with unusual electronic structure. These materials have great potential for applications including photovoltaics, organic electronics, and single-molecule devices.