POWRE: Novel Inorganic Self-Assembled Monolayers: Boranes and Gold

这项由多学科活动办公室（OMA）资助的妇女研究和教育专业机会（POWRE）方案奖支持加州大学洛杉矶分校的Robin Garrell教授的研究和教育活动。 这项研究旨在将她实验室现有的技术扩展到一个新的领域，即自组装单分子层（SAMs）的研究。 硼烷和碳硼烷，如硼硫醇和碳硼烷衍生物，将被用作贵金属和氧化物表面上的新型自组装膜的基础。 拓扑结构，吸附物表面的相互作用和稳定性将使用各种分析技术以及量子力学计算进行检查。通过POWRE计划提供的机会将提高Garrell教授的研究潜力，以及她对本科生，研究生和博士后科学家的教育指导。 她对这些基于硼烷的自组装单分子膜的研究可以作为粘附、润湿和其他界面过程的模型。 这项工作最终可能有利于电子产品，传感器和薄膜涂层的制造。

This award of the Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education (POWRE) program funded through the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA) supports the research and educational activities of Professor Robin Garrell of the University of California at Los Angeles. The research aims to extend the techniques currently existing in her laboratory to a new area, the study of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). Boranes and carboranes, such as boranethiols and carborod derivatives, will be used as the basis for new types of SAMs on noble metal and oxide surfaces. The topology, adsorbate-surface interactions, and stability will be examined using various analytical techniques as well as quantum-mechanical calculations.The opportunity afforded through the POWRE program will enhance Professor Garrell's research potential as well as her educational mentoring of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral scientists. Her investigations of these borane-based self-assembled monolayers can serve as models for adhesion, wetting, and other interfacial processes. This work could ultimately benefit the manufacture of electronics, sensors, and thin-film coatings.