Near-Infrared Organic Materials and Emerging Applications

ISBN-13: 9780367380076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 186 str.

Zhi Yuan Wang

Opis

Highlighting emerging applications of near-infrared (NIR) organic materials that are currently receiving great attention due to their potential use in optical communications, biomedicine, and camouflage materials, this cutting-edge book reviews important recent advances in an accessible style suitable for researchers and graduates in the field. The author emphasizes the chemistry of materials, in particular the structure–property relationship of near-infrared organic compounds and polymers. Chapters cover molecular design aspects and applications that utilize NIR-absorbing, NIR chromogenic, photosensitizing, photovoltaic, and fluorescent properties.

Spis treści

Introduction. Molecular design and energy gap tuning. Near-infrared organic compounds. Near-infrared absorbing polymers. Emerging applications of near-infrared organic materials. Index.

O autorze

Zhi Yuan (Wayne) Wang, Ph.D., is a professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and holds a Canada Research Chair in Emerging Organic Materials. Professor Wang’s research interests focus on the study and development of fundamentally important and practically useful organic materials, including nonlinear optical chromophores and polymers, near-infrared chromogenic materials, chiroptical materials, and photocurable polymers.