Jing Li
The State University of New Jersey, USA
Title: Designing functional materials for clean energy lighting applications
Biography
Biography: Jing Li
Abstract
Crystalline hybrid semiconductors built on periodically ordered inorganic and organic nanomodules represent a new type of functional materials that are fundamental important and practical relevant. Recently, we have developed several such material families by rational design strategy and self-assembly process. These hybrid materials are composed of nanometer or sub-nanometer sized binary semiconductor modules (e.g. 0D clusters, 1D chains, or 2D slabs) that are connected to organic molecules (ligands) via coordinate bonds to form perfectly ordered crystal lattices. They often exhibit significantly enhanced properties over their binary parent compounds (e.g. more efficient energy absorption and enhanced optical emission), as well as new phenomena and unique features that are not attainable with either of the individual inorganic or organic component alone. In addition, optoelectronic properties of these materials can be systematically tuned and optimized by modifying their crystal structure, dimensionality, and chemical composition. Notably these materials can be obtained by cost-effective green synthesis, and are particularly promising for energy-efficient general lighting applications