New Redox-Active Organic pi-Conjugated Building Blocks for Functional Nanoscale Materials and Devices

有机π共轭材料的快速发展导致了尖端技术的巨大进步，例如能量存储和转换、有源显示器、化学和生物传感以及纳米电子和光子器件。有机材料的优点在于其易于通过化学改性来定制的性质以及材料加工和器件制造的低成本。在NSERC Discovery Grant的资助下，我们最近的研究在设计和合成各种氧化还原活性共轭分子和相关大分子系统方面取得了重大突破。因此，这些材料为我们提供了多功能的分子“积木”，以制备新的纳米材料和组装先进的分子器件。

The rapid development of organic pi-conjugated materials has led to great advancement in cutting-edge technologies, such as energy storage and conversion, active displays, chemical and biological sensing, as well as nanoscale electronic and photonic devices. The advantages of organic materials lie in their easily tailored properties through chemical modifications and the low costs for material processing and device fabrication. In our recent research supported by NSERC Discovery Grant, significant breakthroughs have been made in the design and synthesis of a variety of redox-active conjugated molecules and relevant macromolecuar systems. These materials have thus offered us versatile molecular “building blocks” to prepare novel nanoscale materials and to assemble advanced molecular devices.