Advanced Chemistry of Materials

 

Lecturers:

Prof. Shie-Ming Peng (彭旭明教授)
Prof. Chin-Ti Chen   (陳錦地教授)
Prof. Kuang-Lieh Lu (呂光烈教授)
Prof. Jiann-T'suen Lin (林建村教授)
Prof. Chung-Yuan Mou (牟中原教授)
Prof. Yu-Tai Tao (陶雨台教授)

Outline:

(1)   Basic Concepts

Atomic Structure
Chemical Bonds
Lewis Structure
Molecular Orbital Theory
Special Topic: Metal-Metal Bonding

(2) Self-assembly of functional materials

Self-assembly and supramolecular chemistry
Supramolecular host-guest compounds
Metallacyclophanes
Molecular devices and sensors
Crystal engineering: Self-assembly, structure, and applications of metal-organic frameworks
Self-assembly of biomimetic materials

(3) Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSC) and Photovoltaic (PV) Cell

Si-based Solar Cell
Structure and Mechanism of DSSC or PV Cell
Efficiency of DSSC or PV Cell
Dyes for DSSC
Nanoporous TiO2
Electrolytes for DSSC
Plastic PV Cell
Hybrided PV Cell

(4) Sensors

Principle of Sensing
Molecular Design for Recognition and Sensing
Ddendrimers and Polymers for Sensing
Application includeing Biosensors

(5) Meso-porous Materials

Definition of“Nanoporous materials”
History
Structures and Characterization
Chemical Bonds & Self-assembly
Preparation of Nanoporous materials
Applications in Adsorbents, Catalysis, Nano-reactor, Guest-Host interaction etc

(6) Organic Field-Effective Transistors (OFET)

Development of Transistors
Miniaturization of IC and Transistor
Fabrication of Silicon-based Transistor
Physical Principle of Devices
Properties of Organic Semiconductor Materials
Issues that Affect the Performance of OFET

(7) Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) Materials

Development of OLED/LED
Comparison of OLED and Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
Physical Principle of Devices
Properties of Light-Emitting Materials
Decaying issue of OLED
Efficiency of OLED, Fluorescence and Phosphorescence
Full Color OLED

(8) Organic Thin Films by self-assembly-Structure and applications

Langmuir Monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett Multilayers
Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMS):

→ Carboxylic acids on oxide surfaces
→ Alkylsilanes on hydroxylated surfaces
→ Organothiol on coinage metals

Mixed monolayers
Multilayers
Monolayer-protected clusters(MPCs)
Patterning of surfaces

→ Soft lithography
→ Dip-pen nanolithography

Sensor applications
Molecular electronics
Others

 

 

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