Undergraduate Chemical Research in Materials Science

本“大学生研究经验”（REU）项目是关于材料化学的。从1989年4月开始，为期三年，12名本科生将在来自锡拉丘兹大学和波茨坦州立大学的11名高级教员的指导下，花10周时间从事材料化学研究。本课程将探讨材料科学中四个密切相关的化学研究领域。第一个方面涉及设计、合成和表征具有增强性能的新型有机金属化合物，用于薄膜沉积技术，如有机金属气相外延（OMVPE）和分子束外延（MBE）工艺。第二方面是由上述有机金属前体化合物制备和表征新材料。第三个方面涉及这些新材料的物理化学性质的研究。最后一个方面涉及这些新材料在各种问题上的化学应用。

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site project is in the chemistry of materials. For a three-year period, beginning in April 1989 twelve (12) undergraduate students will spend ten (10) weeks engaged in materials chemistry research, under the direction of eleven (11) senior faculty members from both Syracuse and SUNY at Potsdam. Four very closely related areas of chemical research in materials science will be investigated. The first aspect involves the design, synthesis and characterization of new organometallic compounds with enhanced properties for use in thin-film depositional techniques such as organometallic vapor phase epitaxial (OMVPE) and molecular beam epitaxial (MBE) processes. The second aspect is the preparation and characterization of new materials from the organometallic precursor compounds described above. The third aspect involves the study of the physico-chemical properties of these new materials. The final aspect deals with the chemical applications of these new materials to a variety of problems.