Transformative Strategies for the Production of Hybrid Luminescent and Semiconducting Molecular, Polymeric, and Self-Assembled Materials

随着我国技术需求的不断发展，对有助于应对这些挑战的新型且易于获取的功能材料的需求也在不断变化。拟议的研究计划将产生发光和半导体分子，聚合物和自组装材料，用于各种有机电子（例如，传感器、存储器件、发光二极管、场效应晶体管和太阳能电池）。我们将利用我们的专业知识来创造新型混合结构，该结构利用纯有机材料的最佳特性，并通过使用来自甲腈和腙的氮基配体来结合无机元素的所需功能。 我们的计划包含了这个旗舰NSERC计划的发现主题，因为它提供了广泛的潜在变革性想法和高风险，高回报企业的计算平衡，这将使我们处于我们领域的最前沿。我们认为，整个提案中的风险因素是合理的，因为我们有能力应对类似的雄心勃勃的研究挑战，我们对分子和聚合物目标的精心设计，以及研究成果对功能合成材料和有机电子领域的潜在影响。此外，我们独特的专业知识和当地的基础设施非常适合拟议的研究。如果没有这些根本性的进展，未来几代功能材料和有机电子的创新和发展将是不可能的。 拟议的计划是多学科和协作。它将为高素质的人员（HQP）在理学士，硕士和博士水平提供一个很好的培训基地。他们将致力于开发混合材料合成的指导原则，为他们生产的发光和半导体混合材料建立详细的结构-性能关系，以及自组装协议，这些协议将改变材料科学家设计半导体聚合物的方式。这些举措将为与加拿大工业界的新的和持续的合作提供一个平台，这将直接涉及HQP，进一步增加所创造的培训经验的影响。HQP将毕业于非常适合加拿大经济和学术界先进材料和制造业的技能。

As the technological demands of our country continue to evolve, so does the need for new and readily-accessible functional materials that will help to address these challenges. The proposed research program will produce luminescent and semiconducting molecular, polymeric, and self-assembled materials for use in a variety of organic electronics (e.g., sensors, memory devices, light-emitting diodes, field-effect transistors, and solar cells). We will employ our expertise in the creation of novel hybrid architectures that take advantage of the best traits of purely organic materials in combination with the required functionality of inorganic elements through the use of nitrogen-based ligands derived from formazans and hydrazones. Our program embraces the discovery' theme of this flagship NSERC program, as it offers a broad scope of potentially transformative ideas and a calculated balance of high risk, high reward ventures that will place us at the forefront of our field. We believe that the elements of risk that feature throughout the proposal are justified based on our demonstrated ability to address similar ambitious research challenges, our careful design of the molecular and polymeric targets, and the potential impact that the research outcomes will have on the functional synthetic materials and organic electronics fields. Furthermore, our unique expertise and local infrastructure are ideally suited to the proposed research. Without fundamental advances such as those proposed, innovation and development of future generations of functional materials and organic electronics will simply not be possible. The proposed program is both multidisciplinary and collaborative. It will provide an excellent training ground for highly qualified personnel (HQP) at the BSc, MSc, and PhD levels. They will work toward the development of guiding principles for the synthesis of hybrid materials, the establishment of detailed structure-property relationships for the luminescent and semiconducting hybrid materials that they produce, and self-assembly protocols that will transform the way materials scientists approach the design of semiconducting polymers. These initiatives will provide a platform for new and continued collaborations with Canadian industry that will directly involve HQP, further increasing the impact of the training experiences created. HQP will graduate with skill sets ideally suited to the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Sector of the Canadian economy and academia.