Design and synthesis of organic and hybrid materials for application in lighting, gas storage, and catalysis

Abstract

The need for new materials and technological advances for an ever-changing world is paramount. Currently, one of the largest areas of change is the energy sector, from how it is produced, stored, and finally utilized; all these areas are being improved to become more environmentally friendly. The area of focus for this work is designing new organic and hybrid materials to address each of these different areas, in particular: designing and synthesizing two-dimensional metallated covalent organic frameworks (COFs) to generate energy sources and store potential sources, as well as designing novel thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitters for applications in lighting, to reduce the overall energy demand. All these topics require a large amount of interdisciplinary collaborations and as such the focus of this work will be on the design and synthesis of these materials rather than focusing on the many details that would go into their final applications.