CHED 788 |
| The development of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are promising and gaining popularity because their ease in fabrication, cost efficiency, and safety to the environment upon disposal as opposed to traditional inorganic LEDs. OLEDs are ideal for optical communication because of their tendency not to refract or reflect light. Our approach to OLED fabrication employs the inexpensive abundant material known as chitosan and porphyrin chromophores attached to the chitosan polymer backbone. Chitosan has favorable mechanical and chemical properties such as the ability to be functionalized, sigma bonds that preclude oxidation, and nonlinear optical properties. The synthesis of a chlorocarbonylphenylporphyrin as a precurser to the chitosan-porphyrin conjugate has been synthesized and efforts are underway to prepare the chitosan-porphyrin conjugate. The synthesis and characterization of these materials will be presented. (W.A.A. acknowledges his Chemistry Scholars Award and the Kaolin Endowment at GCSU.) |
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Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Polymer Chemistry
11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Monday, March 26, 2007 Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Riverside Center, Poster
Division of Chemical Education |