Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Chemistry at Syracuse University

本本科生研究经验（REU）项目是在材料化学领域。从1992年开始的三个夏天，16名本科生将在来自雪城大学和波茨坦纽约州立大学的11名高级教师的指导下，花10周的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 area of materials chemistry. For three summers beginning in 1992, 16 undergraduate students will spend 10 weeks engaged in materials chemistry research, under the direction of 11 senior faculty members from both Syracuse University 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.