Advanced Chemistry of Materials

Credits: 3

Lecturers:

Prof. Shie-Ming Peng 彭旭明（2/20, 2/27, 3/6）
Prof. Kuang-Lieh Lu 呂光烈（3/13, 3/20）
Prof Soofin Cheng 鄭淑芬（3/27）
No Class （4/3）
Prof Soofin Cheng 鄭淑芬（4/10）
Midterm Exam（4/17）
Prof. Jiann-T'suen Lin 林建村（4/24、5/1）
Prof. Chin-Ti Chen 陳錦地（5/8, 5/15, 5/22）
No Class （5/29）
Prof. Yu-Tai Tao 陶雨台（6/5、6/12）
Final Exam（6/19）

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) 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

(4) Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSC)

Structure and Mechanism of DSSC
Efficiency of DSSC
Dyes for DSSC
Nanoporous TiO2
Electrolytes for DSSC
Plastic PV Cell
Hybrided PV Cell

(5) Sensors

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

(6) 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

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

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

1. Carboxylic acids on oxide surfaces
2. Alkylsilanes on hydroxylated surfaces
3. Organothiol on coinage metals

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

1. Soft lithography
2. Dip-pen nanolithography

Sensor applications
Molecular electronics
Others

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