Frank Group: Organic Electronic and Magnetic Materials chemistry

 

Join Us!

Are you intererested in developing the chemistry and theory for new classes of organic materials for molecular switches, organic solar cell devices, and energy storage ?

Do you like to make molecules in the lab and make measurements ? Do you strive to understand why molecules behave the way they do, and what structural features dictate their physical properties? Would you like to contribute to the active field of organic electronic materials ?

Research in the Frank Group is multidisciplinary and each student carries out synthesis, solution-state spectroscopy, electronic structure computations, and solid-state property measurements on paramagnetic materials that are either comprised of photochromic-organic metal complexes or stable organic radicals and polymers.

The specific techniques you will learn in our lab are:

multistep organic synthesis of aromatic heterocycles
characterization of organic molecules ( HNMR, CNMR, IR, MS, EA, X-ray crystallography)
Schlenk-line (and glove box in some cases) air-sensitive techniques
coordination chemistry
characterization of coordination complexes ( HNMR, CNMR, IR, MS, EA, X-ray crystallography)
electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy
electrochemistry
electronic absorption spectroscopy (as a function of time (kinetics), temperature, irradiation with light)
laser spectroscopy
electronic structure (DFT) and band structure computations (PBC, SIESTA)
magnetometry (magnetic properties) as a function of field, temperature and irradiation with light
electrical conductivity (electrical properties)
reflectance spectroscopy (optical properties)
photomagnetic measurements, photoconductivity measurements
organic electronic device architectures
 
All techniques, with the exception of electronic devices are carried out in-house in either our instrument lab (MPMS, Laser, PE UV-Vis-NIR, electrochemical workstation, IR) or synthesis lab (Schlenk lines, glove box, solvent purification system).

We are currently accepting applications for:

M.Sc. and Ph.D. graduate students. Download the Chemistry Department brochure here.

Chem 499 and Chem 498 Undergraduate Research Projects

NSERC USRA applications (GPA>7.0)

To enquire, please send an email to: nlfrank@uvic.ca

 

 

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Last Updated: Dec 07, 2010.