Glove box for advanced macromolecular synthesis

需要惰性气氛手套箱的研究计划旨在开发新的聚合物合成化学，能够提供获得具有明确结构的新的先进大分子和纳米材料的途径，这是化学中一个有望发现、创新和巨大增长的新兴领域。我们对新型复杂聚合物和纳米材料的设计、合成和开发特别感兴趣，因为它们具有潜在的有趣的特性和先进的功能。建议的工作包括开发新的手性、含金属和pH响应的聚合物材料，这些材料在手性拆分、催化、有机发光二极管、太阳能电池和程序化药物输送方面具有潜在的应用前景。尽管这些材料被认为是稳定的材料，但它们的合成涉及对微量氧气和水分具有高度反应性的试剂和反应中间体。因此，这些实验必须在手套箱中的超纯惰性气氛下进行。

The research program for which the inert-atmosphere glove box is required aims to develop new polymer synthetic chemistry that can provide access to new advanced macromolecules and nanomaterials with well-defined architectures, an emerging field in chemistry which promises discovery, innovation and tremendous growth. We are particularly interested in the design, synthesis, and development of new complex polymers and nanomaterials as they have the potential to exhibit interesting properties and advanced functions. Proposed work includes the development of new chiral, metal-containing and pH-responsive polymeric materials, which have potential applications in chiral resolution, catalysis, organic light emitting diodes, solar cells, and programmed drug delivery. Although these are expected to be stable materials, their syntheses involve reagents and reaction intermediates that are highly reactive toward trace amount of oxygen and moisture. It is therefore vital that these experiments be conducted under ultra pure inert atmosphere in a glove box.