School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Matthew J Fuchter Maximising dissymmetry and handling directionality in chiral materials

We have an ongoing interest in the development of conjugated chiral organic molecules which can emit and detect circularly-polarized (CP) light within thin film materials and in organic electronic devices. CP light is central to many applications, including data storage, quantum computation, biosensing, environmental monitoring and display technologies. Such technologies require the generation of device compatible materials.

Using a range of chiral organic materials — helicenes, fullerenes and polymers — this talk will give an overview of our strategies to maximise the selectivity of such chiral-optical responses through molecular design, materials processing and device architecture.