Hierarchical Self-assembly and Characterization of Photonic Materials

本工作的目的是制备一系列金属卟啉材料的结构单元，并将其组装成光子材料。 一些金属卟啉将或已经制备和热力学，动力学，以及这些材料的自组装所涉及的合作相互作用进行了研究。 这些自组装材料将被组装成具有多种功能的超分子光子学，这些光子系统将被加工到表面上和聚合物中。由此形成的组装体将通过许多物理方法进行表征，一些在PI的实验室中进行，一些与其他研究人员合作进行。有了这个奖项，有机和大分子化学计划支持Charles M.纽约市立大学亨特学院化学系的流失。 Drain博士将探索光子材料的合成。 光子材料是能够在小的限定空间中吸收和发射光子的分子的集合。 这些光吸收材料（发色团）通常被组装到表面上（例如光电门控晶体管或具有可控发光特性的表面上的材料）或组装到聚合物或导线中。 通过该项目培训的学生将获得材料研究和超分子有机化学方面的经验，因此他们将拥有特种化学品和计算机/材料行业所需的技能。

The objective of this work is to prepare a number of metalloporphyrin material building blocks and then assemble them into photonic materials. A number of metalloporphyrins will be or have been prepared and the thermodynamics, kinetics, and cooperative interactions involved in the self assembly of these materials will be studied. These self assembled materials will then be assembled into supramolecualr photonics with multiple functions and these photonic systems will be processed onto surfaces and into polymers. The assemblies thus formed will be characterized by a number of physical methods, some in the laboratory of the PI and some in collaboration with other investigators.With this award, the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program is supporting the research of Dr. Charles M. Drain of the Department of Chemistry at CUNY Hunter College. Dr. Drain will explore the synthesis of photonic materials. Photonic materials are assemblies of molecules which can absorb and emit photons in small defined spaces. These light absorbing materials (chromophores) are typically assembled onto surfaces (photogated transistors for example or materials on surfaces with controllable luminesence properties) or into polymers or wires. Students trained as a result of working on this project will gain experience in materials research as well as supramolecular organic chemistry, hence they will have skills needed by both the specialty chemicals and the computer/materials industries.