New Materials for Supramolecular Nanoscale Devices
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Title
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New Materials for Supramolecular Nanoscale Devices
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:c3d6bd9adbe9:11654
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identifier
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12236
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Creator
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Jurow, Matthew,
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Contributor
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Charles M. Drain
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Date
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2013
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Nanotechnology | Molecular chemistry | Graphene Oxide | Phthalocyanine | Porphyrin | Solar Cells
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Abstract
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The projects reported here seek to employ the very small---molecules, nanoparticles, films of materials far thinner than a human hair---to create diverse useful systems. We have focused our attention of a class of molecules which strongly absorb light and can be induced to interact with other materials to create devices which can harvest the energy in sunlight, change the way they respond to external stimulus based on the way they are being illuminated, and hopefully in the future make electronic devices more efficient, sustainable, smaller and broadly better.;The majority of our most advanced current technologies are made by "top down" fabrication. Large portions of materials which do not demonstrate any of the strange properties which emerge when physical dimensions are severely limited, called bulk materials, are whittled down and painstakingly arranged sometimes one molecule at a time to make microchips and the screens in our cell phones. Another driving force of the research described here is to advance the idea of "self assembly" by which molecules can be designed to interact with each other in such a way that they arrange into a precise manner without needing to be moved one at a time.;By advancing our knowledge of self assembled systems, especially those which interact with light, we have strived to make real progress towards new highly applicable functional technologies across many disciplines.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Chemistry
