Studies of Monolayer Protected Metal Clusters and of Electron Transfer Active Molecular Melts

该更新项目由分析和表面化学项目支持，旨在合成和表征单层保护的纳米金属团簇以及新型混合价固体和半固体分子熔融相的化学和电化学行为。Murray教授和他在北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的学生将在这项工作中使用广泛的实验方法，包括核磁共振、傅立叶变换红外、热、荧光和质谱，以及电化学技术和电导率测量。这些纳米级的新型界面材料在电催化、分子器件和电致变色材料等领域具有广阔的应用前景。将研究包含纳米级金团簇和由聚醚低聚物制备的电活性分子熔体的新型薄膜材料，这些材料具有类似聚合物的固体和半固体性质。Murray教授和他在北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的学生将使用广泛的实验技术对这些材料进行研究，同时考虑这些材料在电催化、电致变色器件和新型化学试剂领域的适用性。这项工作融合了化学的基础工作，同时保持了开发具有技术相关性和社会价值的材料的明确目标。

This renewal project, supported in the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program, aims to synthesize and characterize the chemical and electrochemical behavior of monolayer-protected nanoscopic metal clusters and of novel, mixed valent solid and semi-solid molecular melt phases. Professor Murray and his students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use a wide range of experimental methods in this work including nuclear magnetic resonance, Fourier transform infrared red, thermal, fluorescence, and mass spectroscopy together with electrochemical techniques and conductivity measurements. These new interfacial materials with nanoscopic dimensions hold technological promise in electrocatalysis, molecular devices, and electrochromic materials. Novel thin-film materials incorporating nanoscopic gold clusters and involving electroactive molecular melts prepared from polyether oligomers that exhibit polymer-like solid and semi-solid properties will be studied. Professor Murray and his students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will pursue studies of these materials using a wide range of experimental techniques while considering the applicability of these materials in the fields of electrocatalysis, electrochromic devices, and novel chemical reagents. This work blends fundamental work in chemistry while keeping clear goals to develop materials with technological relevance and societal value.