GWC2 Wednesday Afternoon Research Seminars: Derek Schipper

Derek Schipper
Department of Chemistry
University of Waterloo

Wednesday, November 17, 2021
3:00 p.m.
Online via Microsoft Teams

Please contact gwc@uoguelph.ca with your Teams ID/email address to attend the seminars. 
All are welcome to attend!

ABSTRACT: Conjugated organic materials such as conductive polymers and single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are quickly becoming indispensable for technologies such as photovoltaics, light emitting diodes and field effect transistors. Therefore, efficient assembly and deposition of these materials is an important goal. Advancing synthetic strategies provide a direct way to streamline synthesis, render new architectures synthetically accessible and control the material properties. This talk will discuss our recent efforts developing a dehydration polymerization strategy to access novel, heterocycle containing, conjugated polymers as well as a synthetic "bottom up" approach for the simultaneous sorting and alignment of SWNTs.