ICorps: Polymer Semiconductor Educational Kits

ICorps：聚合物半导体教育套件

• 批准号: 1903691
• 负责人: Michael Walter
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1903691&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ICorps; Polymer; Semiconductor; Educational; Kits

The broader impacts of this I-Corps project are to improve hands-on laboratory experiences in the field of materials science and to increase STEM awareness for students/instructors at the 9-12 and undergraduate levels. The educational kit bridges the gap between theoretical and practical molecular materials technologies. The kit is an interactive learning tool designed for interdisciplinary laboratory activities and can be used in physics, chemistry, engineering, and material science educational settings. The kits provide all needed materials, a fully developed curriculum, and training for implementation. Professional development workshops for instructors help to integrate the laboratory activities into instructor?s existing science curriculum while addressing national and international science standards. There is a significant market for hands-on laboratory activities that incorporate contemporary science experiments currently under investigation and development at the university level. School districts and science / engineering departments will likely be interested in acquiring the kits, making them a commercially impactful and important education platform. The kit is flexible and can be expanded upon to include future experiments and professional development. The kits can also be used and developed for extracurricular activities such as science fairs and competitions.This I-Corps project involves a polymer electronics laboratory kit to improve materials science education for 9-12 and undergraduate students. The three-module kit and curriculum use polymer semiconductors to provide hands-on inquiry activities integrating themes of electrical conductivity, light emission, and light-harvesting solar energy conversion. These themes are critical to contemporary materials science research and education. The kit includes materials to evaluate the electrical properties of conductive colloidal polyaniline inks, to construct a polymer light- emitting diode using polyphenylene vinylene, and to build a polymer solar cell using semiconductive polymers and nanoparticulate TiO2. Designed initially for high school science classrooms, the activities developed also meet new collegiate undergraduate education requirements for macromolecular, supramolecular, and nanoscale systems in the curriculum and can be used in undergraduate teaching laboratories. The modules and kit have also been implemented in professional development workshops for training 9−12 science educators to help integrate the laboratory activities into their curriculum.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该 I-Corps 项目的更广泛影响是改善材料科学领域的实践实验室经验，并提高 9-12 年级和本科生级别的学生/教师的 STEM 意识。该教育套件弥合了理论和实用分子材料技术之间的差距。该套件是一种交互式学习工具，专为跨学科实验室活动而设计，可用于物理、化学、工程和材料科学教育环境。该套件提供了所有需要的材料、完整开发的课程以及实施培训。教师专业发展研讨会有助于将实验室活动整合到教师现有的科学课程中，同时满足国家和国际科学标准。结合目前大学层面正在研究和开发的当代科学实验的实践实验室活动有一个重要的市场。学区和科学/工程部门可能有兴趣购买这些套件，使其成为具有商业影响力的重要教育平台。该套件非常灵活，可以扩展以包括未来的实验和专业发展。该套件还可用于科学博览会和竞赛等课外活动。该 I-Corps 项目涉及聚合物电子实验室套件，旨在改善 9-12 岁学生和本科生的材料科学教育。该三模块套件和课程使用聚合物半导体来提供结合导电性、光发射和光收集太阳能转换主题的实践探究活动。这些主题对于当代材料科学研究和教育至关重要。该套件包括用于评估导电胶体聚苯胺油墨的电性能、使用聚苯乙烯乙烯构建聚合物发光二极管以及使用半导体聚合物和纳米颗粒二氧化钛构建聚合物太阳能电池的材料。开发的活动最初是为高中科学课堂设计的，也满足了新的大学本科教育对课程中高分子、超分子和纳米级系统的要求，可用于本科教学实验室。这些模块和套件也已在专业发展研讨会上实施，用于培训 9−12 科学教育工作者，以帮助将实验室活动纳入他们的课程。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Theoretical background on semiconducting polymers and their applications to OSCs and OLEDs

• DOI: 10.1515/cti-2020-0020
• 发表时间: 2021-06-30
• 期刊: CHEMISTRY TEACHER INTERNATIONAL
• 作者: Luscombe, Christine K.;Maitra, Uday;Wiedmer, Susanne K.
• 通讯作者: Wiedmer, Susanne K.