Patterned redox arrays for charge storage applications

ORGN 608

Silas C. Blackstock, blackstock@ua.edu, Kye-Young Kim, kkim015@ufl.edu, J. R. Duncan, dunca022@bama.ua.edu, Jia Sun, Brad Payne, payne031@bama.ua.edu, Chuleekorn Chotsuwan, chots001@bama.ua.edu, and Gregory J. Szulczewski, gjs@bama.ua.edu. Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, P. O. Box 870336, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
By linking redo units of varying oxidation potential together in designed 3D patterns, we have constructed a set of marcromolecular oligomers capable of confining electron spin and electrical charge to spatially and chemically controlled environments with a macromolecular domain. Such systems are being developed to control spin-spin coupling between unpaired electrons, electron transport pathways, and charge location and storage on a nanometer scale. In this presentation, recent advances in the synthesis and charge transport properties of these polyredox oligomers will be described.

 

Materials, Devices, and Switches
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, 30 March 2006 Georgia World Congress Center -- Georgia Ballroom 2, Oral

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30, 2006