Objective
All optical data processing and storage requires materials with properties that can be altered and controlled with optical fields. Major issues concern the magnitude and the kinetics of the material response. Organics offer the potential to realise suitable materials using the response on a molecular level to trigger large amplitude changes of the material via the subsequent response of supramolecular structures. The aim of PROTIOS is to establish and to demonstrate new principles allowing to control optically induced proton and ion transfer processes in molecular systems. Controlling these optical switching processes allows to develop materials where the trade-off between speed of response, stability, and magnitude of response can be adapted.
Novel schemes are being developed for optically switchable molecular devices with controllable stability. Photoinduced proton and ion transfers are the underlying molecular processes that will be used to induce the required material changes. The control of these processes is optimized via the chemical synthesis of adapted molecular structures embedded in suitable host materials.
For 2 known chromophoric proton transfer systems, chemical modifications were introduced aimed at stabilizing the proton transferred state and reducing the rate of the back reaction. The proton transferred state has a higher ground state proton donor potential so that a subsequent transfer and further stabilization of the proton can be envisaged. In some cases the stabilization seems sufficient so that fine tuning of the relative stabilities of the tautomeric structures can be achieved by environmental forces.
Hole burning mechanisms and the thermal stability of hole burning systems were established in polymers and crystalline model systems. In crystals of benzoic acid the rates and ranges of photoinduced proton displacements were characterized and reaction mechanisms in these restricted environments were established. In dye doped polymers the relative importance of the physical properties of the host and guest were characterized.
Novel guest host systems suitable for hole burning applications were discovered, in particular proton transfer dyes operating in the red spectral range and suitable for semiconductor applications.
APPROACH AND METHODS
The strategy used to design and to develop novel photoactive materials is to combine molecules having known photoinduced state changes leading to a change of their proton or ion binding affinity with suitable supramolecular receptor cages. These functional entities are immobilised in polymer host materials designed to meet the requirements of providing an environment which permits the operation of the functional entity and of exhibiting good optical and mechanical properties.
The consortium brings together the human skills and forefront experimental techniques and facilities required to attain the set objectives. The project will use the interdisciplinary collaboration of synthetic chemists (Strasbourg), polymer chemists (Coimbra), and physicists (Bayreuth and Grenoble) with complementary diagnostic facilities to characterise materials under extreme conditions via high resolved time and frequency spectroscopy as well as via optical imaging and holography.
POTENTIAL
The principles that will be explored and established in this project constitute the basic requirement for the development of novel materials suitable in a number of applications of optical data handling and processing. These applications range from archival storage and patternable guided optical structures to 2-D optical processing, where in particular, materials with extremely high third order nonlinear responses are required while a somewhat slower response is tolerable.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry organic acids
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics semiconductivity
- natural sciences computer and information sciences data science data processing
- natural sciences physical sciences optics spectroscopy
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France
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