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Engineering of Self-healing Adhesives and Polymeric Sensors with Stretchable Applications
(2020)
An ultra-fast self-healing adhesive (SHA) has been developed based on a reversible network of dynamic metal−ligand interactions which is strategically manipulated by activation energy control. The amorphous structure with ...
Carrier Transport in Auger-Suppressed Infrared Detector Materials
(2019)
State of the art infrared detectors can operate at high efficiency and low noise throughout the infrared wavelength range. However, MWIR and LWIR detectors are still limited by very low operating temperatures in order to ...
Dehydrofluorination Induced High Piezoelectric Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride) and Applications
(2019)
The piezoelectric effect in poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and its copolymers allows the exchange of mechanical and electrical energy. Combined with their unique properties as soft materials, piezoelectric polymers ...
Novel Photoarylation-based Controlled Polymerization of Conjugated Polymers and Its Application for Transparent Electrode
(2019)
In order to afford the production of conjugated polymers with uniform and desirable optical and electrical properties on a large scale, much effort have been devoted to light-induced polymerization. Various well-defined ...
Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence Materials: from Fundamental Triplet Exciton Modulations to Novel Applications in Biosensing and Bioimaging
(2021)
Metal-free purely organic phosphors are an emerging class of room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials and have attracted great attention over the past decade, owning to their potentials in a variety of advanced ...
Effects of Microstructural Properties on Structural Color of Self-Assembled Colloidal Crystals
(2021)
This dissertation examines the relationship between colloidal microstructural properties and structural color, to guide the design of optical materials. Colloidal microstructures can interact with light to produce structural ...
First-Principles Calculations on the Electronic and Optical Properties of Polar Functional Materials
(2021)
Advanced computational methods are continually pushing the boundary of modern materials science. They can guide experimental inquiry by surveying a large number of materials for functional properties as well as guide the ...
Novel Solid Electrolytes Derived From Polymer Syntheses
(2021)
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become the most important electrochemical storage sys-tem owing to their high energy densities (~250 Wh/kg), providing an escape from consumption of fossil fuels. However, current LIBs ...
Coupled Electrochemo-Mechanical Phenomena at the Anode/Electrolyte Interface in Solid-State Batteries
(2020)
With the ever-increasing demands for safe, reliable energy storage, solid-state batteries have emerged as a potential candidate to accelerate widespread adoption of electrified technology. While lithium-ion batteries ...
Modeling Reaction and Transport Effects in Stereolithographic 3D Printing
(2020)
Continuous stereolithography has recently emerged as a leading technology in additive manufacturing (3D printing). Though several methods for continuous printing have been reported, they all share the benefit of reducing ...