Description
Among various semiconductive materials, polymers have attracted much attention due to the flexibility and diversity offered by macromolecular synthesis. For example, fluorescent polymers exhibit great potential for various applications, such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and flexible optoelectronics. In parallel, conjugated polymers have shown promising performance in organic photovoltaics and photodetectors.
The current project aims to design an innovative and versatile polymeric platform targeting highly tunable photophysical properties in solid state while allowing advanced manufacturing for next-generation microOLEDs and photodetectors. A simple methodology will be developed to prepare either well-defined non-conjugated polymers with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) feature or conjugated polymers with strong UV-vis absorption, via the combination of controlled/living radical polymerization and other synthetic methods.
The project will involve chemical synthesis of small molecules and polymers, characterization of their photophysical properties such as UV-vis absorption and fluorescence emission, and 2D/3D photolithography.
We are looking for :
Two master students with background in organic synthesis/polymer chemistry/materials science. If you are passionate about synthesis of new molecules for real applications, join us!
About Nanomaterials Engineering Research Group
The Nanomaterials Engineering Lab in the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering at ETH Zurich is composed of chemical engineers, physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and electrical engineers, focusing on physics and chemistry of nanomaterial and organic semiconductors for new optoelectronics.
