{"618087":{"#nid":"618087","#data":{"type":"event","title":"STAMI Distinguished Lecture Series  Professor Timothy M. Swager","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EABSTRACT\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis lecture will focus on the design of systems wherein reconfiguration of complex liquid emulsions (droplets) can be triggered chemically or biochemically.\u0026nbsp; The utility of these methods is to generate new transduction mechanisms by which chemical and biological sensors can be developed.\u0026nbsp; Complex liquid droplets behave as optical lens systems and small changes in surface tensions can change focal lengths or cause systems to switch between optically transmissive or scattering states.\u0026nbsp; Central to this scheme is that the fluids in the droplets have different densities and hence are aligned by the earth\u0026rsquo;s gravity.\u0026nbsp; The induced optical changes can be triggered with chemical, photochemical, or biochemical stimuli and thereby create new generations of sensors.\u0026nbsp; Demonstrations of these methods for the detection of enzyme concentrations and pathogens will be presented.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT THE SPEAKER\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETimothy M. Swager is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry and the Director, Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A native of Montana, he received a BS from Montana State University in 1983 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1988.\u0026nbsp; After a postdoctoral appointment at MIT he was on the chemistry faculty at the University of Pennsylvania 1990-1996 and returned to MIT in 1996 as a Professor of Chemistry and served as the Head of Chemistry from 2005-2010.\u0026nbsp; He has published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers and more than 90 issued\/pending patents. Swager\u0026rsquo;s honors include: Election to the National Academy of Sciences, an Honorary Doctorate from Montana State University, The Pauling Medal, The Lemelson-MIT Award for Invention and Innovation, Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention, The American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry, The Christopher Columbus Foundation Homeland Security Award, and The Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award (ACS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESwager\u0026rsquo;s research interests are in design, synthesis, and study of organic-based electronic, sensory, high-strength and liquid crystalline materials. His liquid crystal designs demonstrated shape complementarity to generate specific interactions between molecules and includes fundamental mechanisms for increasing liquid crystal order by a new mechanism referred to as minimization of free volume. Swager\u0026rsquo;s research in electronic polymers has been mainly directed at the demonstration of new conceptual approaches to the construction of sensory materials. These methods are the basis of the FidoTM explosives detectors (FLIR Systems Inc), which have the highest sensitivity of any explosives sensor. Other areas actively investigated by the Swager group include radicals for dynamic nuclear polarization, applications of nano-carbon materials, organic photovoltaic materials, polymer actuators, and luminescent molecular probes for medical diagnostics. He is the cofounder of 3 companies and has served on a number of corporate and government boards.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis lecture will focus on the design of systems wherein reconfiguration of complex liquid emulsions (droplets) can be triggered chemically or biochemically.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dynamic Droplets"}],"uid":"28463","created_gmt":"2019-02-19 18:12:09","changed_gmt":"2019-03-01 20:50:25","author":"Tim Parker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-03-26T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-03-26T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-03-26T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-03-26 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-03-26 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-03-26 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"618674":{"id":"618674","type":"image","title":"Swager","body":null,"created":"1551472224","gmt_created":"2019-03-01 20:30:24","changed":"1551472224","gmt_changed":"2019-03-01 20:30:24","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235500","name":"PHOTO - Swager 3.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PHOTO%20-%20Swager%203.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PHOTO%20-%20Swager%203.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1433936,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PHOTO%20-%20Swager%203.png?itok=YjW-XJYZ"}},"618675":{"id":"618675","type":"image","title":"Swager - Diagram","body":null,"created":"1551472811","gmt_created":"2019-03-01 20:40:11","changed":"1551472811","gmt_changed":"2019-03-01 20:40:11","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235501","name":"PICTURE - Diagram.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PICTURE%20-%20Diagram.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PICTURE%20-%20Diagram.png","mime":"image\/png","size":256209,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PICTURE%20-%20Diagram.png?itok=iR4syrL1"}}},"media_ids":["618674","618675"],"groups":[{"id":"585025","name":"Center for the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials and Interfaces (STAMI)"},{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"172973","name":"STAMI"},{"id":"918","name":"COPE"},{"id":"107891","name":"gtpn"},{"id":"174414","name":"CR\u0100SI"},{"id":"172972","name":"SMI"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Will Gutekunst\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ewgute@chemistry.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"613764":{"#nid":"613764","#data":{"type":"event","title":"CRASI Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Christopher Jarzynski","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThermodynamics provides a robust conceptual framework and set of laws that govern the exchange of energy and matter.\u0026nbsp; Although these laws were originally articulated for macroscopic objects, it is hard to deny that nanoscale systems, as well, often exhibit \u0026ldquo;thermodynamic-like\u0026rdquo; behavior.\u0026nbsp; To what extent can the venerable laws of thermodynamics be scaled down to apply to individual microscopic systems, and what new features emerge at the nanoscale?\u0026nbsp; I will review recent progress toward answering these questions, with a focus on the second law of thermodynamics. I will argue that the inequalities ordinarily used to express the second law can be replaced by stronger equalities, known as fluctuation relations, which relate equilibrium properties to far-from-equilibrium fluctuations.\u0026nbsp; The discovery and experimental validation of these relations has stimulated interest in the feedback control of small systems, the closely related Maxwell demon paradox, and the interpretation of the thermodynamic arrow of time.\u0026nbsp; These developments have led to new tools for the analysis of non-equilibrium experiments and simulations, and they have refined our understanding of irreversibility and the second law.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChris Jarzynski received an AB degree in physics from Princeton University in 1987, and a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Washington in Seattle and at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, he became a staff member in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos. In 2006, he moved to the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is now a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, with joint appointments in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology and the Department of Physics. His research is primarily in the area of nonequilibrium statistical physics, where he has contributed to an understanding of how the laws of thermodynamics apply to nanoscale systems. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the 2005 Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences, and the 2019 Lars Onsager Prize in Theoretical Statistical Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo what extent can the venerable laws of thermodynamics be scaled down to apply to individual microscopic systems, and what new features emerge at the\u0026nbsp;nanoscale?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EI will review recent progress toward answering these questions, with a focus on the second law of thermodynamics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Scaling down the laws of Thermodynamics"}],"uid":"27546","created_gmt":"2018-11-02 16:52:45","changed_gmt":"2018-11-02 17:02:27","author":"Sharon Lawrence","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-11-14T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2018-11-14T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-11-14T17:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-11-14 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-11-14 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-11-14 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"613765":{"id":"613765","type":"image","title":"Jarzynski","body":null,"created":"1541177785","gmt_created":"2018-11-02 16:56:25","changed":"1541177785","gmt_changed":"2018-11-02 16:56:25","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233618","name":"Jarzynski.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jarzynski.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jarzynski.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24632,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jarzynski.jpg?itok=1n5RKKk7"}}},"media_ids":["613765"],"groups":[{"id":"585025","name":"Center for the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials and Interfaces (STAMI)"},{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"172973","name":"STAMI"},{"id":"174414","name":"CR\u0100SI"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Jennifer Curtis \u0026nbsp;jennifer.curtis@physics.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Michael Filler \u0026nbsp;michael.filler@chbe.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESharon Lawrence \u0026nbsp;sharon.lawrence@chemistry.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"212021":{"#nid":"212021","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series - Luisa De Cola","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Luisa De Cola from the University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France)\u0026nbsp;visits Georgia Tech and presents a lecture as part of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cope.gatech.edu\/events\/lecture\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Dynamic, Reversible and Hybrid Materials: Properties and Applications\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDynamic systems that can undergo reversible processes are of great interest for the development of new materials, sensors, and biolabels. The talk will illustrate some of the recent results on soft structures based on metal complexes able to aggregate in fibers, gels and soft mechanochromic materials.\u0026nbsp; The use of platinum complexes as building block for luminescent reversible piezochromic and mechanochromic materials will be illustrated. The emission of the compounds can be tuned by an appropriate choice of the coordinated ligands as well as of their aggregation in different structures. The formation of soft assemblies allows the tuning of the emission color, by pressure and temperature leading to a new class of materials possessing reversible properties. Functional systems can also be created using inert or active nanocontainers such as microporous and mesoporous silica based nanoparticles. In particular examples using the crystalline allumino silicates, zeolite L, and mesoporous organosilicates will be discussed since these materials can act as nanocontainers and due to their biocompatibility used for biomedical applications. The different functionalization of their surface will be discussed, in particular with the aim to show that the particles can be decorated with different functional groups including biocompatible molecules and are able to perfom drug and DNA or RNA delivery inside the cell. The delivery can be probed by a kinetic analyses after the nanoparticles internalization. In particular using confocal fluorescent microscopy it is possible to follow the release of each single component as well as the positioning of the nanocontainers in real time and space. Such achievement allows us to study the fate of the different units and their release time. Also it will be shown how the molecules entrapped in the ordered channels can become active components. The alignment of electroactive molecules inside the narrow channels of a zeolite L, resulted in the formation of molecular wires. The molecular wire length is tunable between 30 and 100 nm and electrical measurements on the 1D assemblies were performed. Finally an ultra-high (\u0026gt; 2000%) room-temperature magnetoresistance was observed applying only a few mT.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Luisa De Cola\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince October 2012,\u0026nbsp;De Cola is \u0026nbsp;professor at the University of Strasbourg (I.S.I.S.) as chair of Supramolecular and Bio-Material Chemistry, and part time scientist at the INT-KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe was born in Messina, Italy, where she studied chemistry. After a post-doc in USA she moved back to Italy and in 1990 she was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna (Prof. V. Balzani group). In 1998 she moved as Full Professor to the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2004 she accepted a call from the University of Muenster as full professor in chemistry and physics. She has received several awards, the most recent being the ERC advanced grant (2009), the IUPAC award as one of the Distinguished Women in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (2011), the Gutenberg chair award (2012). 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Although known for a century, organics have achieved little impact until OLED displays entered the market\u0026nbsp;about a decade ago, demonstrating that organic semiconductors are ready for significant\u0026nbsp;commercial markets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn contrast to light-emitting devices, organic solar cells have so far achieved little commercial\u0026nbsp;impact due to low efficiency and lifetime. However, organic solar cells have recently\u0026nbsp;achieved significant progress and have crossed the 10% efficiency mark. For a broad\u0026nbsp;application, further significant improvements are needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis talk overviews the key features of solid-state organic solar cells\u0026nbsp;and recent developments in the field. One central research area is the design of the bulk\u0026nbsp;heterojunction active layer, requiring a nanoscale phase separation and optimized\u0026nbsp;morphology to achieve efficient operation. 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Swager\u2019s honors include: The John Scott Award, Election to the National Academy of Sciences, an Honorary Doctorate from Montana State University, the Lemelson-MIT Award for Invention and Innovation, Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Christopher Columbus Foundation Homeland Security Award, and The Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award (ACS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESwager\u2019s research interests are in design, synthesis, and study of organic-based electronic, sensory, high-strength and liquid crystalline materials. His liquid crystal designs demonstrated shape complementarity to generate specific interactions between molecules and includes fundamental mechanisms for increasing liquid crystal order by a new mechanism referred to as minimization of free volume. Swager\u2019s research in electronic polymers has been mainly directed at the demonstration of new conceptual approaches to the construction of sensory materials. 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We have shown that totally solution processable solar cells can be fabricated in air at temperatures as low as 300 \u00b0C. Focusing on a CdTe\/ZnO thin-film system, we report solar cells that achieve power conversion efficiencies of upto 10% with greater than 90% internal quantum efficiency.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Scott Watkins\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Scott Watkins is the Stream Leader for Thin Film Photovoltaics in CSIRO\u2019s Future Manufacturing Flagship and is based in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Melbourne, Victoria. Scott has a PhD in Chemistry from UNSW and has developed research interests which span the synthesis and analysis of new materials through to the fabrication and testing of devices. Between 2000 and 2004 Scott worked with Cambridge Display Technologies in the UK on the development of light-emitting polymers and metal complexes for display and lighting applications. Scott joined CSIRO in 2004 to work on materials and applications in the field of flexible electronics. At CSIRO Scott has led projects on both OLEDs and OPVs and coordinates CSIRO\u2019s involvement in a number of national and international consortia aimed at developing applications of flexible electronics by linking industry with research. Scott is representing CSIRO in the newly formed Australia-US Institute for Advanced Photovoltaics (AUSIAPV), of which Georgia Institute of Technology is a partner.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Scott Watkins from\u0026nbsp;CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Australia presents a lecture entitled, \u0022Thin Film Solar Cells. 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Skabara, Professor at the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) presents a lecture entitled, \u0022\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Role of Non-covalent Interactions in Band-gap Tuning, Conformation and Self-assembly\u0022 \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Eas part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/events\/seminar\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech-COPE Seminar Series\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe extent to which the optoelectronic properties of molecules are controlled by their conformation and packing is now well appreciated. In particular, the planarity (or nonplanarity) of a molecule has a dramatic influence on its behavior, and hence on its potential application. 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The nature of these interactions is not entirely clear, but one possible source of an attractive potential is a 3c-2e interaction between lone pairs and relatively low-lying antibonding orbitals, although these are likely to be counteracted to some extent by significant lone pair-lone pair repulsions. The 3D nature of the material represents a unique motif for highly efficient charge transport. A second example, polymer \u003Cstrong\u003E2\u003C\/strong\u003E (m = 10\u003Csup\u003E-3\u003C\/sup\u003E cm\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E V\u003Csup\u003E-1\u003C\/sup\u003E s\u003Csup\u003E-1\u003C\/sup\u003E), has a planar repeat unit in the solid state as a result of close intramolecular sulfur\/fluorine and hydrogen\/fluorine contacts. Interestingly, variations in the absorption spectrum of these molecules suggest that the band gap is very sensitive to the degree of planarity. Whilst the mobility values for \u003Cstrong\u003E1\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003E2\u003C\/strong\u003E are modest, the importance of the work is that it establishes a principle for the rational design of second generation materials with enhanced charge-transport properties.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis lecture will discuss several further examples that underline the importance and influence of non-covalent interaction in organic semiconductors.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Peter Skabara from the University of Strathclyde presents a lecture entitled, \u0022The Role of Non-covalent Interactions in Band-gap Tuning, Conformation and Self-assembly\u0022"}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2013-07-18 14:35:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:03:56","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-08-06T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2013-08-06T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-08-06T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-08-06 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-08-06 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-08-06 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"224021":{"id":"224021","type":"image","title":"Peter Skabara","body":null,"created":"1449243551","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:39:11","changed":"1475894896","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:16","alt":"Peter Skabara","file":{"fid":"197375","name":"skaraba2.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/skaraba2_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/skaraba2_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":62356,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/skaraba2_0.png?itok=HQRDOPo5"}},"225581":{"id":"225581","type":"image","title":"Skabara structures","body":null,"created":"1449243551","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:39:11","changed":"1475894896","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:16","alt":"Skabara structures","file":{"fid":"197412","name":"skabara3.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/skabara3_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/skabara3_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":21010,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/skabara3_0.png?itok=p1_4l6HA"}}},"media_ids":["224021","225581"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.strath.ac.uk\/chemistry\/staff\/academic\/peterskabara\/","title":"Peter Skabara"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/events\/seminar\/skabara.php","title":"More"}],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10797","name":"center for organic photonics and electronics"},{"id":"918","name":"COPE"},{"id":"69911","name":"peter skabara"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESharon Lawrence\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-4040\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"223661":{"#nid":"223661","#data":{"type":"event","title":"COPE Seminar Series - Dr. Holger Frauenrath","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERelation of Structure and Charge Transport in \u0027Single-Stack\u0027 Organic Nanowires\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrganic nanowires may provide insights into the fundamental processes of charge generation and transport in organic semiconductors under nanoscopic confinement. Here, we demonstrate how a simple molecular design results in nanowires with defined lateral dimensions that comprised a single stack of tightly \u03c0\u2013\u03c0 stacked chromophores at their core. Moreover, we prepared well-defined microfibers that exhibited hierarchical structure formation with a remarkably high degree of internal order and enabled us to obtain detailed structural information on all length scales with molecular level precision. The nanowires and microfibers nanowires showed light-induced formation of radical cations that behaved like positive polaron charge carriers. The nanofibrils were semiconducting, showed space-charge injection-limited conductivity behavior, and exhibited photo-current generation, relating their macroscopic electric properties to the spectroscopically characterized charge carriers. Our results, thus, provide an example of a universal organic nanowire model system that successfully links molecular design, well-defined supramolecular structure formation, charge carrier generation, and finally macroscopic charge transport.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout\u0026nbsp;Holger Frauenrath\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHolger Frauenrath studied chemistry at RWTH Aachen, Germany from 1992 to 1997, with a focus on synthetic organic chemistry. He performed his PhD thesis from 1998 to 2001 in the research group of Prof Hartwig H\u00f6cker at RWTH Aachen, working on a project related to the stereospecific polymerization of methacrylates as well as their copolymerization with olefins using zirconocene catalysts. Afterwards, he joined the group of Prof. Sam Stupp at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, as a postdoctoral fellow supported by a Feodor Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His postdoctoral research projects were centered around the supramolecular self-assembly of rod-coil molecules. After his return to Germany in 2003, he started to build his own research group at FU Berlin, funded with an Emmy Noether Grant from the German Science Foundation. In 2005, the research group moved to the Department of Materials at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where Holger Frauenrath obtained his Habilitation in 2009. In the same year, he was appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor at the Institute of Materials (IMX) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, building the new Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Materials (LMOM). 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It provides a non-threatening environment in which students give short talks followed by questions and discussion.\u0026nbsp; The format of the meeting allows for 4 students to present their research.\u0026nbsp; A reception after the meeting provides an opportunity for networking with other students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goals of the seminar series:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProvide a venue for graduate students to present their research prior to conferences or defense\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProvide a forum for students to gain experience presenting their work\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEncourage collaboration among students\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe series is a monthly event featuring organic photonics and electronics related research presentations. \u0026nbsp;Students interested in giving a presentation must submit a title, abstract and photo by e-mail to \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sharon.lawrence@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESharon Lawrence\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at least 1 month prior to the event.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia-Tech COPE Graduate Seminar Series is a student-organized event where graduate students can present their ongoing research, improve their presentation skills, and receive feedback."}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2013-05-08 08:32:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:03:30","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-06-06T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2013-06-06T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-06-06T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-06-06 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-06-06 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-06-06 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10797","name":"center for organic photonics and electronics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1791","name":"Student sponsored"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sharon.lawrence@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESharon Lawrence\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-4040\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"209561":{"#nid":"209561","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series - Natalie Stingelin","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENatalie Stingelin from Imperial College London visits Georgia Tech-COPE and presents a lecture entitled,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EElectronic Processes and Phenomena in Organic Materials: A Materials Scientist\u2019s Point of View\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;as part of the Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the past decade, significant progress has been made in the fabrication of organic semiconductor thin-film devices predominantly due to important improvements of existing materials and the creation of a wealth of novel compounds. Many challenges, however, still exist. Key to commercial success is to make it technological practice to exploit the touted potential for low-cost manufacturing of these functional materials. This requires intimate knowledge of relevant structure\/processing\/performance interrelations. Here, examples are given of how materials scientists \u2018tools\u2019 may be utilized to gain further understanding of this interesting class of materials and how the physical organization, from the molecular to the macroscale of functional organic matter such as polymer semiconductors can can be controlled. To this end, we present a survey on the principles of structure development from the liquid phase of this materials family with focus on how to manipulate their phase transformations and solid-state order to tailor and tune the final \u2018morphology\u2019 towards technological and practical applications.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENatalie Stingelin from Imperial College London visits Georgia Tech-COPE and presents a lecture entitled, \u003Cem\u003E\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EElectronic Processes and Phenomena in Organic Materials: A Materials Scientist\u2019s Point of View\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E as part of the Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Natalie Stingelin from Imperial College London lectures at Georgia Tech-COPE"}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2013-04-26 10:19:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:03:25","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-07-12T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2013-07-12T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-07-12T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-07-12 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-07-12 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-07-12 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/n.stingelin-stutzmann","title":"Natalie Stingelin at Imperial College London"}],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"918","name":"COPE"},{"id":"6153","name":"distinguished lecture series"},{"id":"1692","name":"materials"},{"id":"65041","name":"natalie stingelin"},{"id":"6594","name":"organic materials"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"209571":{"#nid":"209571","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series - Chihaya Adachi","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series is pleased to welcome Dr. Chihaya Adachi from Kyushu University on Friday, August 23 at 4pm. Dr. Adachi will present a lecture entitled, \u0022\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMaterials Design for Highly Efficient Delayed Fluorescence\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0022. The lecture will be followed by a reception, which\u0026nbsp;provides a chance for students, faculty, and staff to meet with him.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;Adachi received his PhD from Kyushu University in 1991. In 2005 he was appointed Full Professor at the Center for Future Chemistry at Kyushu University.\u0026nbsp; Since 2010 he is director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) and he serves on the editorial board of Organic Electronics (Elsevier). His current research interests are in organic opto-electronics such as OLEDs, organic FETs, organic solar cells, organic laser diodes and fundamental photo-physical and electronic processes in organic solid-state thin films.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaterials Design for Highly Efficient Delayed Fluorescence\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough typical organic molecules are simply composed of carbon (C), hydrogen (H), nitrogen (N) and oxygen (O) atoms, carbon\u2019s unique bonding manners based on sp\u003Csup\u003E3\u003C\/sup\u003E, sp\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E and sp hybrid orbitals enable very complicated molecular architectures, leading to amazing functions in a wide variety of creatures and industrial products. In the last two decades, the allure of unlimited freedom of design with organic molecules has shifted a significant part of the research effort on electronics from inorganic into organic materials. In particular, great progress has been achieved in the development of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The successive progress of 1st generation OLEDs using fluorescent molecules and 2nd generation OLEDs using phosphorescent molecules solidified organic materials as a very attractive system for practical electronics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this study, we designed new advanced electroluminescent (EL) molecules composed of only conventional CHN atoms without any precious metals. With proper molecular design, the energy gap between the two excited states, \u003Cem\u003Ei.e.\u003C\/em\u003E, singlet (S\u003Csub\u003E1\u003C\/sub\u003E) and triplet (T\u003Csub\u003E1\u003C\/sub\u003E) excited states, are minimized, promoting very efficient spin up-conversion from T\u003Csub\u003E1\u003C\/sub\u003E to S\u003Csub\u003E1\u003C\/sub\u003E states (reverse intersystem crossing (ISC)) while maintaining a rather high radiative decay rate of \u0026gt;10\u003Csup\u003E6\u003C\/sup\u003E\/s, leading to a very high fluorescence efficiency. Using these unique molecules, we realized a very high external EL efficiency that is comparable with those of high-efficiency phosphorescence-based OLEDs. Thus, these molecules harvest both singlet and triplet excitons for light emission under electrical excitation through fluorescence decay channels. Most recently, we designed a various kind of organic light-emitting materials demonstrating intense delayed fluorescence. Even though molecules have a small energy gap between singlet and triplet excited states, we succeeded for maintaining rather high radiative decay rate, i.e., high emission efficiency. 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Topics will include the design, synthesis, photophysical properties and OLED performance of fluorescent copolymers, and phosphorescent Ir(III) complexes. Color tuning of emission, including efficient white light emission will be reported.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhosphorescent device efficiencies as high as 40 cd\/A with external quantum efficiencies of 12% for green emission have been achieved in simple solution-processed device architectures. \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.surveygizmo.com\/s3\/1131289\/COPE-Seminar-Series-Martin-Bryce\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERSVP\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Martin Bryce\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMartin Bryce was born near Birmingham, UK and graduated from Wolverhampton Polytechnic (B.Sc. 1st class). He completed a D.Phil. at York University under the guidance of John Vernon and Peter Hanson in 1978. Following postdoctoral appointments at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (with Larry Weiler) and the University of Bristol (with Roger Alder) he joined Durham University. He was promoted to Professor of Chemistry in 1995. He is the recipient of the Ciba-Geigy Award for academic collaboration in Europe (1990), the Royal Society of Chemistry Bader Award (1992), the Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Award (1992), the Nuffield Foundation Science Research Fellowship (1993), the University of Durham Sir Derman Christopherson Fellowship (1995) and the Royal Society of Chemistry Heterocyclic Chemistry Award (2002). Martin has held Visiting Scientist positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Copenhagen. He was a Troisi\u00e8me Cycle Lecturer at several universities in Switzerland in 2008. Since 1990 he has been the co-director of the Durham University Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics. 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Dr. So is a Chartered Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), and the International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE). His research interest is in the area of organic light emitting diodes, organic solar cells, infrared sensors and radiation detectors. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Materials Science and Engineering Reports and also an Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Display Technology, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, SPIE Journal of Photonics for Energy. Dr. So has edited one book and is an author of 3 book chapters. He has over 100 refereed publications, 70 issued patents and another 20 patent applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. So received many awards and recognitions. While at Motorola, he was given the Distinguished Innovator and the Master Innovator Awards. 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It has now become a premiere venue for discussion of the latest developments in the areas of organic electronics and photonics, from synthesis to characterization, computational modeling, device fabrication, and real-world applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"July 8-13, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Downtown Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2012-06-28 10:38:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:59:12","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-07-08T01:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-07-13T01:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-07-13T01:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-07-08 05:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-07-13 05:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-07-13 05:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2288","name":"Bredas"},{"id":"37421","name":"icsm"},{"id":"37431","name":"international conference on science and technology of synthetic metals"},{"id":"167678","name":"Seth Marder"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWebsite:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca title=\u0022Conference Website\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.icsm2012.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EICSM 2012\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEmail:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:info@icsm2012.com\u0022\u003Einfo@icsm2012.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"112851":{"#nid":"112851","#data":{"type":"event","title":"COPE Seminar Series - Dr. Alejandro Briseno","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0022The Oligomer Approach Towards Understanding Crystallization of Polyalkylthiophene Semiconductors\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt is well acknowledged that carrier mobilities of conjugated polymers can be further enhanced by highly crystalline arrangement of alkyl side chains and backbones. 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Mulder, P.D. Reusswig, C. Rotschild and M.A. Baldo\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:baldo@mit.edu\u0022\u003Ebaldo@mit.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt has long been recognized that luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are perhaps the ideal solar concentrator for photovoltaic cells. LSCs are expected to be inexpensive to manufacture and can generate theoretically unlimited optical concentrations without the need to track the sun. But losses within LSCs have proved difficult to overcome. In this talk, we will address recent developments in photovoltaic cells and LSC technology that prompt a renewed examination of this technology. In particular, we will discuss: (i) the development of infrared LSCs; (ii) LSCs that employ aligned dye molecules for better coupling to solar cells; and (iii) organic solar concentrators, a class of luminescent solar concentrators that exploit advances in thin film organic semiconductor technology to substantially reduce self absorption losses, enabling flux gains exceeding F = 10, meaning that a photovoltaic cell attached to the concentrator generates approximately 10 x the power of the photovoltaic cell without optical concentration. Finally, we will discuss third generation LSCs. We will describe our recent work on exciton fission and also the performance of optical multijunctions that use multiple LSCs to separate the solar spectrum for different solar cells. 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It is chaired by Seth Marder and Jean-Luc Bredas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nF-Pi-9 will follow the success of previous F-Pi conferences organized in Japan (Osaka in 1989, 1999, and 2006 and Kobe in 1992), USA (Santa Cruz in 1995 and Ithaca in 2004), Germany (Ulm in 2002) and Austria (Graz in 2008). The conference started as the \u0022International Symposium on Functional Dyes\u0022; however, to broaden the scope of the conference and to adjust to developments in academic and industrial research, the name was changed to the \u0022International Symposium on Functional Pi-Electron Systems\u0022 in 2002.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nF-Pi-9 will attract around 500 participants from all over the world to discuss their new results in the context of conjugated polymer\/oligomer synthesis, organic semiconductor materials, photovoltaic and electroactive materials and devices, graphene, functional Pi-systems for therapeutic applications and more. 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