Title:Chemical synthesis - a key driving force in the development of photoelectric materials
Speaker: Prof. Ullrich Scherf
Time:Mar. 15. 2012.10:00-11:30
Venue: Room A101 At WNLO
Abstract:
The lecture will present some recent synthesis driven examples towards systematic control on morphology and optoelectronic properties of conjugated oligomers and (co)polymers. The examples include conjugated (co)polymers for application in organic solar cells, all-conjugated rod-rod block copolymers and their self-assembly in solvent mixtures and in the bulk, as well as hyperbranched, multichromophoric conjugated polymers.
Biography:
Prof Scherf received his PhD in 1988 at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena, Germany. Then he joined Institut für Tierphysiologie, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig in 1988 as a postdoctor, and moved to the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz as a group leader in 1990. He became a professor for Polymer Chemistry at the University of Potsdam In 2000 and moved to Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal in 2002. His research interest includes novel polymeric architectures with an active physical function – semiconducting (conjugated) oligomers, polymers and copolymers, rod-rod block copolymers, chiral polymers, microporous polymer networks and macrocycles.
Prof. Scherf is the inventor of ladder conjugated polymers and full conjugated block copolymer. He has 540 publications, 14 patents and three edited books with total citations about 16000 and H-index of 63. He was listed as one of the 50 most cited authors in Materials Science from 2006 to 2009 and one of the "Top 100 Materials Scientists" from 2000 to 2010 according to Thomson-Reuters ranking (26th). He got Meyer-Struckmann Research Award in 1998 and Odysseus Senior Award, FWO, Flanders in 2011.
