by Jason Martin

In late August, Georgia Tech announced a new strategic plan to take the Institute to its 150th anniversary in 2035. The theme of the plan is “Designing the Future” and presents Georgia Tech’s strategy for carrying-out its mission and fulfilling its vision over the next 25 years. The plan puts an emphasis on achieving this vision through leadership in education and research that not only solves problems, but shapes the world.

Naturally, having a university-wide plan not only serves as a guideline for an organization like COPE, but it allows an opportunity for the organization to reflect on current initiatives, revisit strategies and goals, explore new ideas, and forge plans that are strategically aligned with the university.

In the context of this long-term plan, the time is again appropriate for COPE to account for its current efforts and identify new ways to successfully promote scholarship, research, and innovation in the field of organic photonics and electronics.

The Georgia Tech plan sets forth five overarching goals. Here are the five goals and a summary of how COPE is or intends to align, promote, or facilitate the achievement of each goal.1. Be Among the Most Highly Respected Technology-Focused Learning Institutions in the World• Attractandretainexpertfaculty,

January 25, 2011 Newsletter Volume: 005

ResearchDARPA Awards $4.3M to Develop Biological, Chemical Threat Detector New Publications

Research Capabilities

PeopleFaculty Spotlight: Gary Schuster

Student Profile: Taylor McLachlan

Alumni - Where are They Now? Roderick Jackson

Seth Marder announced as Journal of Materials Chemistry Editorial Board Chair

COPE Fellowship 2011

Awards & Honors

Faculty & Management Directory

EventsRecap: Open House 2010

5th Solvay~COPE Symposium on Organic Electronics

ICSM 2012

Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series

AAAS Seminar

Event Lists

AnnouncementsScientific Travel Awards Program

Center for Organic Materials for All-Optical Switching

Georgia Tech Expands French Campus with New Institute

Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics

research scientists, post-docs, and students from a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines.

• Workontrulyinterdisciplinarytechnology-driven scientific problems.

• Embraceavarietyofperspectives,with respect to how best serve society.

• Bringpeopleofdifferentgendersand ethnic backgrounds together to create a workforce that is truly diverse.

©2011 The Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Georgia Institute of Technology www.cope.gatech.edu

Georgia Tech President, G.P. “Bud” Peterson launches Georgia Tech’s Strategic Plan before a crowd of more than 800 faculty, staff and students at the Ferst Center Aug. 31.

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Faculty SpotlightGary B. Schuster recently became a member of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics. However, Schuster is no stranger to COPE. As Georgia Tech’s Dean of the College of Sciences in 2003, he was instrumental in establishing the Center.

Professor Schuster started his academic career in 1975 as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he later served for five years as Head of the department of chemistry. In 1994, Schuster moved to Georgia Tech to become Dean of the College of Sciences and Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. In 2001, he was named as Vasser Woolley Professor. Schuster served as Dean of Sciences until 2006 when he was appointed as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Schuster stepped in and served as Interim President of Georgia Tech in 2008. After more than twenty years as an academic administrator, Schuster returned full-time to the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry in September 2010.

Schuster continued active research in chemistry during his time of service as an academic administrator. He has continuously maintained a group of graduate and postdoctoral students and he published more than 260 papers that have garnered more than 9000 citations. Schuster has been recognized as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a recipient of the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association Advancement of Science. His contributions to chemistry have been acknowledged by the American Chemical Society with the A. C. Cope Scholar Award and with the Herty Medal.

Schuster is well-known for his work in mechanistic organic chemistry. Generations of scientists have been fascinated by chemiluminescence. Their work built a knowledge base, but no clear general principles emerged. Schuster discovered that certain peroxides become chemiluminescent in the presence of electron donors, which led to his postulation of the chemically initiated electron-exchange luminescence (CIEEL) mechanism that unified the field and provided a foundation for its development. Today, the CIEEL mechanism forms the basis for assays used extensively in clinical laboratories.

Schuster developed alkyltriaryl borates as a new class of electron donors. He discovered that oxidation of the borate anions creates a boranyl radical that fragments in less than one picosecond to form an alkyl radical and a borane. This reaction sequence defeats the energy wasting back-electron transfer that plagues light-driven processes. These compounds have been commercialized for use in polymerization applications.

Damage to DNA causes mutations and is facilitated by rapid, long-distance charge transfer. Schuster developed

photoactivated DNA oxidants that enabled assessment of the mechanism of charge transfer and analysis of the oxidative reactions of DNA nucleobases. This led to postulation of the phonon-assisted polaron-hopping mechanism and identification of a unique counter ion-assisted reaction pathway. These mechanistic postulates are supported by extensive experimental data and by theoretical investigations carried out in collaboration with Professor Uzi Landman of Georgia Tech’s School of Physics.

One focus of Schuster’s current research is the development of DNA-based electronic materials. The creation of nanometer-sized molecular electronic devices requires the development of molecular nanowires that

can effectively transport charge between functional components. The creation of such devices would be greatly facilitated if the nanowires were capable of self-directed connection enabling the efficient and scalable assembly of circuits. It has been widely recognized that the self-recognition and self-organizing properties of DNA may provide a means for the preparation of such self-directed nanowires and related structures. However, because of its inherent low conductivity, DNA itself is

not useful for this purpose.

Remarkable progress has been made in recent years on various schemes to modify DNA to take advantage of its unique properties for application to molecular electronics. Schuster is pursuing an approach for the preparation of conducting nanowires from DNA oligomers by incorporating a conducting polymer as a covalently-linked third strand conjoined to DNA.

Polyanilines (PANI) and related conducting polymers have been studied extensively because of their ease of synthesis, the wide range of electronic properties they exhibit and their application to various important technologies. Schuster has demonstrated that DNA can be both a template and a scaffold for the formation of conducting polymers that are formed from monomers covalently linked to the DNA nucleobases. Using this approach, conducting polymers of precisely defined length and composition have been prepared by taking advantage of both the self-organizing properties of DNA and of its specific sequence of nucleobases. Research underway in Schuster’s lab is directed toward expanding the range of conducting polymers conjoined to DNA and to measuring their molecular and electrical properties.

Gary B. SchusterVasser Woolley ProfessorChemistry & BiochemistryEmail: schuster@gatech.edutel: +[1] (404) 894-0202

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by Jason MartinAtlanta, GA (November 4, 2010) — The second annual COPE Open House brought together students, professors, researchers, COPE industrial partners, and corporations interested in the research going on at COPE.

The full day of events kicked off with a morning session at the Manufacturing Research Center (MARC) building, where COPE faculty and researchers provided attendees with an overview of some of the research taking place at the Center. COPE would like to thank all those that presented including: Professor John Zhang, Jonathan Maikisch (Professor Tom Gaylord group), Professor Rigoberto Hernandez, Canek

Fuentes-Hernandez (Professor Bernard Kippelen group), Professor David Sherrill, Professor Mohan Srinivasarao, Professor Laren Tolbert, Professor Cliff Henderson, Professor Elisa Riedo, Professor David Bucknall, and Professor Samuel Graham.

After a networking lunch, partners of COPE including the Organic Electronics Association (OE-A) and Solvay, SA. gave presetations on their latest efforts in the field and

Research lectures a the COPE Open House 2010 took place at the Manufacturing Research Center (MARC) building Auditorium.

Attendees enjoy lunch in the lobby of the Manufacturing Research Center (MARC) building.

The student poster session provided an opportunity for students to discuss their research with faculty, industry representatives, and other students.

Participants were given guided tours of some of the facilities at Georgia Tech. Here, an organic synthesis laboratory in the Molecular Science and Engineering building is explored.

Recap: Open House 2010 interactions with Georgia Tech and COPE. Special thanks to Barbara Fisher of OE-A and Ardeshir Momtaz and Guy Laurent of Solvay for sharing their presentations.

Commenting on the Open House, Kevin Hsu, V.P. Research and Technologies at Micron Optics, Inc. stated “The Open House is a very good venue to exchange and stimulate ideas and to keep abreast of the work at COPE. There is very in-depth research work by competent staff and with state-of-the-art facilities here.”

Thanks to all the corporations that were represented at the event including: Angstrom Engineering, ConocoPhillips, Lockheed Martin, Micron Optics, Praxair, Solvay, ULVAC OEL, and Samsung.

The afternoon continued with tours of the Marcus Nanotechnology Building and organic synthesis and device laboratories in the Molecular Science and Engineering Building (MoSE).

Finally, the day’s events were capped off with a reception and student poster session in the atrium of MoSE. Thanks to all the students who presented posters!

For details on Open House 2011 stay tuned or visithttp://www.cope.gatech.edu/openhouse.

Where did you complete your undergraduate degree?I received a BS with a double major in Chemistry-Engineering and Physics-Engineering from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Why did you choose Georgia Tech and when do you expect to graduate?Georgia Tech’s Materials Science and Engineering Program has a strong reputation that was only enhanced after talking with several professors and graduate students during the admissions cycle. The Georgia Tech culture is very personable, and the program is among those leading the way in energy research. The combination of cutting edge research and personable faculty made the decision to enroll at Georgia Tech easy. I am expecting to graduate in May 2013.

Tell us about your research.Coming to Georgia Tech in 2008, I wanted my work to focus on energy devices. Through the BIONIC (Bio-nano-enabled Inorganic/Organic Nanostructures and Improved Cognition) Air Force Center of Excellence, Dr. Sandhage was beginning work on dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), and I jumped on the opportunity. In my research, I am discovering, developing, and analyzing new methods to generate ordered architectures of titanium dioxide for DSSCs which must satisfy certain design requirements. In order to optimize the architecture, the semiconductor must possess a high surface area to maximize the amount of liquid dye adsorbed

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Taylor McLachlanto the titanium dioxide surface, which in turn maximizes the amount of sunlight absorbed and converted into useful energy. Moreover, an ordered architecture provides more

direct paths for electron travel toward the collector, thereby reducing losses.

I have developed a novel shape-preserving reaction method for converting porous templates into titanium dioxide replicas. By tailoring the template morphology and the reaction conditions, I am able to control both the micro/nanoscale structure and chemistry of the resulting replica.

Furthermore, the reaction techniques developed may be applied to a variety of other templates for conversion into a range of functional inorganic materials of desired 3-D morphology.

Outside of your research, what do you enjoy doing?I love learning new things and engaging in a range of activities. I go to a weekly trivia night with several other GT students. I enjoy dancing and have been working on my West Coast Swing techniques lately. I love to be outdoors, whether I’m commuting to school by bicycle, working in my garden, or hiking and climbing in the mountains. Finally, I relish time spent with close friends and family.

What are your future career plans?Ideally, I see myself teaching and researching at a liberal arts university similar to the one I attended. Faculty at such institutions consistently produce cutting-edge research results and offer students many of the benefits of studying at larger institutions with significantly more individual attention, opportunity, and assistance. I will be forever grateful for the opportunities I was given, and I would like to offer future engineers the same opportunities to learn and help their communities. I want to excite a younger generation about our society’s need for new energy sources.

Ph.D. candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, May 2013

Group Ken Sandhage

ResearchDye-sensitized solar cell architectures

Emailmclachlan@gatech.eduPhone(404) 385-6564

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DARPA Awards $4.3M to Develop Biological, Chemical Threat Detector by Abby Vogel Robinson, Communications & Marketing,

Georgia Tech

gases -- and biological agents -- such as proteins, viruses and antibodies -- simultaneously on the same chip.

“The proposed sensors will detect multiple biological and chemical threats on a compact integrated platform faster, less expensively and more sensitively than the current state-of-the-art sensors,” said the center’s leader Ali Adibi, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the two-year $4.3 million center as one of its Centers in Integrated Photonics Engineering Research (CIPhER), which investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices or systems. For its center, Georgia Tech

A new class of sensors able to detect multiple biological and chemical threats simultaneously with unprecedented performance may soon be within reach thanks to the establishment of a multi-million dollar research center led by Georgia Institute of Technology engineers.

Biological and chemical sensing are active research areas because of their applications in clinical screening, drug discovery, food safety, environmental monitoring and homeland security. Using integrated photonics, the new class of sensors will be capable of detecting chemical agents -- such as toxins, pollutants and trace

Ali Adibi’s research focuses on fabricating millimeter-square sensing structures and on-chip spectrometers that will enable multiplexing -- the detection of multiple agents using the same sensing modules. (Photo: Nicole Cappello)

is working with researchers from Emory University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of California, Santa Cruz; and Yale University. The team also includes industry collaborators Rockwell Collins, Kotura, Santur Corporation and NanoRods.

To create an integrated chip that will simultaneously detect multiple biological and chemical agents, the researchers need to achieve three major goals:

•Designandfabricatephotonicandoptomechanicalstructuresto sense differences in a sample’s refractive index, Raman emission, fluorescence, absorption and mass;•Functionalizethesensorsurfacewithcoatingsthatchemicaland biological agents will attach to and create differences that can be detected; and•Developthesamplepreparationmethodandmicrofluidicsample delivery device, and connect the device to the coated photonic structure.

Adibi is leading the first thrust, which is primarily focused on fabricating the millimeter-square sensing structures and on-chip spectrometers that will enable multiplexing -- the detection of multiple agents using the same sensing modules. The sensors will detect changes in the refractive index, Raman emission, fluorescence, absorption spectra and optomechanical properties when a sample that includes specific biological or

chemical particles interacts with the sensor coatings. Combining information obtained from the five different sensing modalities will maximize the sensor specificity and minimize its false detection rate, the researchers say.

“The goal is to achieve very high sensitivity for each modality and investigate the advantages of each modality for different classes of biological and chemical agents in order to develop a clear set of guidelines for combining different modalities to achieve the desired performance for a specific set of agents,” explained Adibi.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemistry professor Timothy Swager is leading the second part of this project, which aims to design surface coatings that will achieve maximum sensor specificity in detecting multiple biological and chemical agents.“We plan to develop glycan-based surface coatings to sense biological agents and polymer-based surface coatings to sense chemical agents,” noted Adibi.

For the third thrust, which is being led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology electrical engineering associate professor Jongyoon Han, the researchers will develop optimal sample preparation and delivery techniques. Their goal is to maximize the biological or chemical particle concentration in the sample and limit detection time to minutes.

“In two years, we hope to have a lab-on-a-chip system that includes all of the sensing modalities with appropriate coatings and microfluidic delivery,” said Adibi. “To show the feasibility of the technology, we plan to demonstrate the high sensitivity and high selectivity of each sensor individually and be able to use at least two of the sensing modalities simultaneously to detect two or three different chemical or biological agents.”

In addition to those already mentioned, this center also includes Georgia Tech chemistry and biochemistry professor Mostafa El-Sayed, Georgia Tech materials science and engineering professor Kenneth Sandhage, Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Research Center senior research scientist David Gottfried, Emory University biochemistry chair Richard Cummings, University of California Santa Cruz electrical engineering professor Holger Schmidt, and Yale University electrical engineering associate professor Hong Tang.

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ICSM 2012The International Conference on the Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, ICSM-2012, will take place in Atlanta from July 8 - 13, 2012. ICSM, which usually attracts over 1,000 participants from all corners of the world, is the longest-running conference series in the field of conducting and semiconducting organic materials. It started in the mid-1970’s with the advent of highly electrically conducting molecular crystals and conjugated polymers (hence, the original reference to synthetic metals!). Over the years, it has become a premiere venue for discussion of the latest developments in the areas of organic electronics and photonics, from synthesis to characterization, computational modeling, device fabrication, and real-world applications.

The co-chairs for ICSM 2012, Jean-Luc Brédas and Seth Marder, are pleased that the outside recognition of COPE has helped them bring ICSM back to the US for the first time since 1996 (the most recent editions took place in Montpellier, France, 1998; Bad Gastein, Austria, 2000; Shanghai, China, 2002; Wollongong, Australia, 2004; Dublin, Ireland, 2006; Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, 2008; and in Kyoto, Japan, 2010).

More: http://www.icsm2012.comQuestions? info@icsm2012.com

5th SOLVAY~COPE Symposium on Organic ElectronicsThe Solvay-COPE Symposium on Organic Electronics will return to Georgia Tech for its fifth edition. The 2009 Symposium was organized at the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (one of the partners in the Solvay Global Discovery Program described in Volume 2 of the COPE Newsletter), while the 2010 Symposium was held in Belgium on the campus of IMEC in Leuven.

The 2011 Symposium will take place on May 12-13, with the first day devoted to scientific presentations. The list of invited speakers includes: Professor Paul Blom, TNO Holst Centre (Netherlands); Professor Luisa De Cola, U. Münster (Germany); Professor Stephen Forrest, U. Michigan (USA); Professor Iain McCulloch, Imperial College London (UK); Professor Kazuo Takimiya, Hiroshima University (Japan). The second day of the Symposium will be devoted to an Industrial Forum.

At the Industrial Forum, representatives from companies such as Plextronics, Polyera, Solarmer, NanoMas, QD Vision, and of course Solvay, will discuss their vision of the field of organic electronics and its outlook. Please remember to mark your calendars for May 12-13, 2011 and make sure to attend this 5th Solvay~COPE Symposium. While free, registration is required and will be open closer to the date of the event.

More: http://www.cope.gatech.edu/symposiumQuestions? kourtnie.robin@ece.gatech.edu

have taken advantage of them, including international experiences. Invariably students travel to one or two national scientific and professional conferences annually, presenting their research and networking. Graduate students meet as a group with the program coordinator weekly, an activity that facilitates interaction among all students, announcement of upcoming events and available opportunities, and sharing of suggestions and concerns by students. This arrangement ensures that students have requests and concerns addressed in a timely fashion, and advance towards graduation without unwarranted delay.

Norfolk State’s partnership with Georgia Tech through the NSF Science and Technology Center Materials and Devices for Information Technology has played and continues to play an important role in the the MSE graduate program, through faculty and students’ interactions. The Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering program will continue to evolve, adapting to the needs of the fast changing professional

Seth Marder announced as Journal of Materials Chemistry Editorial

Board ChairAs of January 1, 2011 Dr. Seth Marder, the Georgia Power Chair in Energy Efficiency and Professor in the Schools of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s weekly flagship materials journal, The Journal

of Materials Chemistry. In his role, Marder leads the Editorial Board, Associate Editors and Advisory Board, and provides strategic guidance to the Royal Society of Chemistry Staff.

When asked about the appointment Marder stated, “I am delighted to be working more closely with the editorial team of Journal of Materials Chemistry in my capacity as Chairman of the Editorial Board. My goals are to continue to improve an already excellent journal by a variety of approaches. This includes defining some very clear standards to streamline and standardize the review process and attempt to increase the number of Communications of particularly new and exciting work.”

Seth has been involved with Journal of Materials Chemistry for a number of years, as an author, referee, and more recently as a member of the Advisory Board. In 2009, he also organized a very successful themed issue on organic non-linear optics. The Journal of Materials Chemistry publishes full papers, reviews and communications and has an impact factor of 4.79.

The Journal of Materials Chemistryhttp://pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals/JournalIssues/JM

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Where are you working now?

I am on the R & D Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

(ORNL). I work in the Building Technologies Research

and Integration Center (BTRIC) at ORNL, which focuses on

research, development, and deployment of energy efficient

technologies in support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s

(DOE’s) goal to maximize cost effective energy efficiency in

homes. My focus is on energy-efficient new construction and

energy retrofits of existing homes. In addition, I also conduct

energy policy analysis in support of DOE’s Office of Policy

and International Affairs.

Tell us more about some of the positive and

negative aspects of your job.

The most positive aspect of my job is that I get to work on

both energy technology and energy policy. This gives me

a broader perspective and a larger sphere of influence to

address the energy challenges the U.S. and world currently

face. Energy technologies and policies are not likely to realize

their needed potential unless they are applied in synergy. My

opportunity to support DOE in both areas gives me a chance

to best provide synergistic solutions. Given the current

Presidential administration’s focus on energy and energy

efficiency, it is a great time to work in this area. In the future,

I hope to interact more with undergraduate and graduate

students in academia.

Is it relevant to organic electronics? In what ways?

Presently no. However, as organic electronics continue to find

consumer applications, I hope to be able to integrate them

into energy efficient residential buildings. For example, organic

electronics are currently being pursued for application in

electrochromic windows. It would be great to utilize organic

electronics to help make electrochromic windows a cost-effective

energy saving solution.

In what ways has your experience with Georgia Tech and COPE

impacted your current professional life?

As a mechanical engineering student in COPE with no background

in organic electronics, I was faced with a very steep learning curve.

I was able to build a network of diverse scientists that I could rely

upon to provide constructive feedback and to collaborate on

answering research questions. This experience helped me enhance

my ability to network, to build and work on multi-disciplinary

research teams, and to find cross-cutting research solutions.

Any advice for students in the field of organic electronics?

Entering into this field can seem like an overwhelming task for

students, particularly those from non-traditional organic electronic

programs (such as Mechanical Engineering). However, as you grow

into the expert you will eventually become, don’t be afraid to

“expose ignorance” by asking the seemingly “stupid question”.

It’s the “stupid questions” that not only advance your own

understanding, but can challenge traditional theories that only

lead to traditional solutions. To meet the grand challenges of the

twenty-first century, engineers and scientists must develop novel

solutions that are most often derived from the “stupid questions”

someone was smart enough to ask.

Building Technologies Research and Integration Center

http://www.ornl.gov/btric

Alumni - Where Are They Now? Roderick Jackson

Roderick Jackson graduated from

Georgia Tech in the summer of

2009 with a Ph.D. in Mechanical

Engineering. Under the tutelage

of Dr. Samuel Graham, his focus

was on the development of single

wall carbon nanotube transparent

conductive electrodes for organic

electronics. He now works at Oak

Ridge National Laboratory on

energy technology and policy

related to energy-efficient home

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Scientific Travel Awards ProgramThe Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics is announcing a new Scientific Travel Awards Program (STAP) for Spring 2011. The STAP seeks to support and promote the dissemination of the scientific results obtained by members of COPE at national and international symposia and conferences in the field of organic photonics and electronics. Travel awards will serve to support individuals that will present their work at conferences, symposia, science competitions, workshops, seminars, and other educational outreach events. Applications for student travel activities that include the promotion of diversity and outreach to minority institutions are highly encouraged. Travel awards will provide matching support and be selected based on the quality and impact of the work to be presented. Their number will be contingent upon the availability of funds. To be considered for a travel award, the travel must take place this Spring before July 1, 2011.

Application Deadline: Monday, February 14, 2011Application: http://www.cope.gatech.edu/education/stap.php

Send a complete application to Kourtnie Robin atkourtnie.robin@ece.gatech.edu.

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Faculty Awards Jean-Luc Brédas• AppointedtotheInternationalSolvayChairinChemistry

2011.TheInternationalSolvayChairsinPhysicsandinChemistryareheldeachyearbyaneminentscientist.The program started in 2006 for physics and in 2008for chemistry. the chairs are organized by the sameFoundationinchargeofthefamedSolvayConferences.

Rigoberto Hernandez • AppointedRaymondandBeverlySacklerVisitingChair

inExactSciences,TelAvivUniversity(2010)

Bernard Kippelen• AppointedDeputyEditorofOpticsExpress

Seth Marder• Receivedthe2011ArthurC.CopeScholarAward

• AnnouncedastheChairoftheRSC,JournalofMaterialsChemistry Editorial Board as of January 1, 2011 (seepage6fordetails).

Joseph Perry• ElectedasaFellowoftheAmericanAssociationforthe

AdvancementofScience(AAAS)

David Sherril• ElectedasaFellowoftheAmericanPhysicalSociety

Student Awards Brantly Fulton(BaratundeColaGroup)• Received a Certificate of Achievement in recognition

of the outstanding presentation at the 2010 AnnualBiomedicalResearchConferenceforMinorityStudents(ABRCMS)

Theodore Hicks(BaratundeColaGroup)• Received a Certificate of Achievement in recognition

of the outstanding presentation at the 2010 AnnualBiomedicalResearchConferenceforMinorityStudents(ABRCMS)

Special AnnouncementsCOPEwouldliketocongratulateThomas Koerzdoerfer,post-doctoralresearcherintheBrédasGroup,forbeingawarded the2011Emil-Warburg-Prize forhis researchon “Self Interaction and Charge Transfer in OrganicSemiconductors”.TheEmil-Warburg-Prizeisaresearchprize annuallygivenby theEmil-Warburg-Foundationto one young researcher in the field of physics. Theaward includes prizemoney of 2500 euros.The prizegivingceremonywasheldattheUniversityofBayreuthinJanuary2011.

2011 COPE Fellows

Keith Carroll (Advisor, Dr. Jennifer Curtis) is researching Thermochemical Nanolithography (TCNL), a technique used to pattern surfaces with a modified AFM. This project is in close collaboration with Professor Seth Marder and Professor Elisa Riedo. Keith is pursuing his PhD in Physics and his future research goals include working in

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2011 COPE Fellowship. Awardees receive a $5,000 award to their existing stipend, have access to the COPE network, meet peers from other departments, and are invited to participate in COPE activities.

biotechnology with a focus on medical applications.

Subodh Jagtap (Advisor, Dr. David Collard) is currently working on design of stacked conjugated oligomers and polymers to study the interchain interactions in conjugated materials. He aspires to join the research and development unit of a major chemical company with a longer-term goal of becoming a successful entrepreneur.

Sergio Paniagua-Barrantes (Advisor, Dr. Seth Marder) is working on surface modification for organic electronic applications and achieving covalent attachment of both conductive and dielectric polymers to oxide surfaces and nanoparticles that may lead to novel, more stable organic solar cells and composite capacitors. He expects to graduate with his Ph.D. in 2012 and pursue a postdoctoral position in surface science.

Xuxia Yao (Advisor, Dr. Mohan Srinivasarao) is researching the physical properties of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals and exploring their applications in organic electronics. She also serves as the vice president of the Society of Plastic Engineers at Georgia Tech. For the future, she hopes to continue doing research in the field of materials science and engineering.

The COPE Fellowship is awarded annually to 4 graduate students pursuing research in the field of organic photonics and electronics.

More: http://www.cope.gatech.edu/education

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Atlanta, GA (October 29, 2010)— With over 100 attendees the auditorium at the Technology Square Research Building was standing room only to listen to solar cell pioneer

Center for Organic Materials for All-Optical SwitchingA new Multi University Research Initiative (MURI) spearheaded by School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Professors Seth Marder, Jean-Luc Brédas, and Joe Perry kicked off in mid-November to develop new organic materials for all-optical switching applications. The Center for Organic Materials for All-Optical Switching (COMAS) is a 5-year, $7.5 million award sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific research (AFOSR).

The Georgia Tech team will work alongside groups from University of Arizona, University of Central Florida, and University of Washington on materials that will lead to unprecedented utility for all-optical switching applications.

COMAS will build on very promising recent results indicating that at telecommunications wavelengths certain polymethine (cyanine) dyes exhibit very large negative real part of the third-order polarizability as well as low linear and nonlinear loss (See “Photonic Material May Facilitate All-Optical Switching and Computing” from Vol. 004).

The focus is on designing and synthesizing various classes of chromophores with improved molecular nonlinearities and developing methods for successfully translating solution properties into high chromophore-density films that retain large nonlinearities, using a tight feedback loop of theory, synthesis, and characterization.

Director Georgia Tech Co-PIsSeth Marder

University of Arizona Co-PIs Robert Norwood and Nasser Peyghambarian

University of Washington Co-PIs Alex K-Y. Jen and Larry Dalton

University of Central Florida Co-PIsEric Van Stryland and David Hagan

The Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series

and Millennium Technology Prize Winner Michael Graetzel from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Graetzel presented an inspiring lecture on “The Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells”. For those of you who missed it the video of the lecture is available on the COPE website.

The next lecture in the series will take place on Friday, February 18, 2011at 4pm in MoSE G-011 where Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger will present a lecture on “Plastic Solar Cells: Self-Assembly of Bulk Heterojunction Nano-materials by Spontaneous Phase Separation”.

Heeger serves as Professor of Physics and Professor of Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara and also heads a research group at the university’s Center for Polymers and Organic Solids. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000) for his pioneering research in the field of semiconducting and metallic polymers. He has more

At the inaugural Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series Professor Michael Graetzel spoke to an audience about The Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells.

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Alan Heeger, will lecture on February 18, 2011.

than 800 peer-reviewed scientific publications. His research efforts continue to focus on the science and technology of semiconducting and metallic polymers with emphasis on “plastic” solar cells, particularly on the self-assembly of bulk heterojunction nano-materials by spontaneous phase separation.

Heeger co-founded (with Howard Berke) Konarka Technologies in 2001; he continues to serve as Chief Scientist. Konarka is commercializing low cost plastic solar cells fabricated from

bulk heterojunction materials comprising semiconducting polymers and fullerenes. Konarka has developed roll-to-roll manufacturing for printed plastic solar cells. Product introduction is on-going in the world’s largest roll-to-roll thin film solar manufacturing facility. Other current interests include studies of bio-specific sensors for DNA and proteins.

The Distinguished Lecture Series is set to become a mainstay of COPE organized events over the coming years. Stay tuned for announcements about upcoming lectures including Klaus Mullen on April 1, 2011.

More: http://www.cope.gatech.edu/news/lecture

Jean-Luc Brédas and Joe Perry

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Atlanta, GA (November 29, 2010)— To culminate the 20th anniversary of its presence in France, the Georgia Institute of Technology is expanding its campus in the northeast region of the country with a new resource center for industry and academic research laboratories. The Lafayette Institute will be built at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in Metz, which is at the forefront of global engineering education and research.

“By providing our industrial partners and academic research laboratories access to state-of-the-art facilities, we will be creating an environment where solutions to global challenges, ranging from energy to medical technology, can be developed,” said Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson. “This Institute also underscores Georgia Tech’s commitment to expand our global partnerships.”

French authorities will finance 23 million euros, roughly $31 million, to create the Lafayette Institute. The institute will provide access to state-of-the-art nanofabrication facilities for optoelectronics, technology transfer and commercialization services. It will focus on technologies at the intersection of materials, optics, photonics, electronics and nanotechnology.

“This European innovation hub will strengthen Georgia’s global footprint in technological innovation and serve as a link between research laboratories and industry, where technological solutions and prototypes can be developed rapidly to stimulate economic development,” said Yves Berthelot, president of Georgia Tech-Lorraine.

According to Bernard Kippelen, a Professor of Electrical and

The campus of Georgia Tech-Lorraine in Metz, France (above) is the home of the recently announced Lafayette Institute that will focus on technologies at the intersection of materials, optics, photonics, electronics and nanotechnology. (Photo: Gary Meek)

Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at Georgia Tech, “The Lafayette Institute will create new opportunities for COPE’s faculty and their students to strengthen technology-focused research with partners in Europe”.

Established in 1990, Georgia Tech-Lorraine offers global research and internship opportunities, and year-round undergraduate, master’s and doctoral programs. More than 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students have attended Georgia Tech-Lorraine.

More: http://www.georgiatech-metz.fr

Seth Marder, Jean-Luc Brédas, and Tobin J. Marks (Northwestern University) are organizing an Advancing Science, Serving Society Seminar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting (February 17 - 21) in Washington, DC entitled “Frontiers in Organic Materials for Information Processing, Energy, and Sensors”. The field of Functional π-systems has grown tremendously in the past 15 years. Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Heeger, MacDiarmid, Shirakawa, and Tsien in the area and new areas of broad industrial interest have resulted from cutting edge research in fields such as photonic displays and biological labeling. Theses fields cover a very diverse set of technologically and biologically important aspects that have positive impacts on society.

The objectives of the seminar are to provide a forum in which a diverse audience can learn about state-of-the-art research in the area of functional π-systems focusing largely, but not exclusively, on the chemistry of such materials. In doing so, it provides a critical forum for people with interests in diverse applications of functional π-systems to discuss fundamental aspects of the chemistry and physics, but also to get exposure to technology drivers and biologically important systems that are often neglected at more specialize conferences on displays, organic photovoltaics, nonlinear optics, etc. The seminar is supported by COPE, Solvay, and the AAAS.

Frontiers in Chemistry Sunday, February 20, 2011: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM146C (Washington Convention Center )Speakers: Alan Heeger (University of California at Santa Barbara), Zhenan Bao (Stanford University), Henning Sirringhaus (University of Cambridge), Mark Thompson (University of Southern California), Timothy Swager (MIT) and Joseph Perry (Georgia Tech).

More: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2011

Georgia Tech Expands French Campus with New Instituteby Liz Clipp, Georgia Tech Communications and Marketing

AAAS Seminar

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2. Sustain and Enhance Excellence in Scholarship and Research• Rewardstudentsfordedicationandexcellenceinthe

classroom and laboratories, i.e. COPE Fellowship.• Offerinterdisciplinarycoursesthattrainstudentswith

diverse backgrounds.• Hostseminarprograms,symposia,andforumsthataddress

the latest theory, research, and developments such as the Georgia-Tech COPE Distinguished Lecture Series, Open House, Solvay-COPE Symposium on Organic Electronics.

• Providetrainingontheresponsibleconductofresearch,including ethics, protocols for the collection and maintenance of data, and protection of intellectual property.

• Sponsor,promote,andcontributetoscientificandengineering conferences and meetings.

3. Ensure that Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Public Service are Fundamental Characteristics of Our Graduates• Encourageparadigm-shiftinginnovationsbyundertaking

high-risk, high-payoff research. • Sponsorstudentresearchprojectsinlocalstart-up

competitions (projected). • Transfertechnologytoindustryandgovernment.• Sponsorandparticipateinoutreachprogramssuchas

GEM, GIFT, STEP.4. Expand Our Global Footprint and Influence to Ensure That We Are Graduating Good Global Citizens• ParticipateinglobalorganizationssuchastheOrganic

Electronics Association (OE-A). • Enterinternationalresearchcollaborationswithother

world-class academic institutions such as Imperial College of London, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

• Engageinpartnershipswithglobalindustryleadersincluding Solvay SA, ConocoPhillips, and Cambridge Display Technologies.

5. Relentlessly Pursue Institutional Effectiveness• Providestate-of-the-artfacilitiesandequipment.• Provideamulti-disciplinaryresearchenvironment

conducive to close collaboration with other Georgia Tech groups.

• Provideaccesstoinformationtechnologyservicesthatcanfacilitate and expedite knowledge transfer.

This summary is just the beginning of a continuing process of improvement. COPE welcomes ideas from its faculty, students, researchers, and partners. Help us by contributing your ideas for new activities, programs, or efforts by contacting us. In addition, we always welcome your feedback on how we are doing, so please let us know.

Georgia Tech’s strategic plan: http://www.gatech.edu/vision

(Designing the Future, continued from page 1)

On Campus Events

Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series: Alan Heeger

Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series: Klaus Mullen

5th Solvay-COPE Symposium on Organic Electronics

February 18MoSE Building

April 1MoSE Building

May 11-12MoSE Building

2011 FlexFlexible Electronics and Displays Conference and Exhibitionhttp://www.flexconference.org

LOPE-C 2011 Large-area, Organic & Printed Electronics Convention http://www.lope-c.com

Feb 7-10Phoenix, AZ

June 28-30Messe Frankfurt,

Germany

Industry Events

Conferences & Meetings

CECAM Workshop on “First Principles Theory and Modeling in Organic Electronics”http://www.cecam.org/workshop-390.html

2011 DOE PV Module Reliability Workshop http://www.nrel.gov/pv/pvmrw.html

AAAS Annual Meetinghttp://www.aaas.org/meetings

APS March Meeting 2011 Symposium on Nanostructures in Polymer-based Photovoltaics http://www.meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR11/Event/136398

241st ACS National Meeting & Exposition http://www.acs.org

Janelia Conference: Multiphoton Imaging: The Next 6x1023 Femtoseconds http://www.hhmi.org/janelia

Light Harvesting Processes - LHP2011 http://www.lhp-bayreuth.de

Society of Vacuum Coaters 2011 TechCon Conference http://www.svc.org

MRS Spring Meeting http://www.mrs.org/spring2011

2011 US-Japan Frontiers of Engineering Symposiumhttp://www.naefrontiers.org

Jan 30 - Feb 4Lausanne,

Switzerland

February 16Golden, CO

February 20Washington, DC

March 21 - 25Dallas, TX

March 27-31Anaheim, CA

April 3-6 Janelia Farm, VA

April 10 -14Bayreuth, Germany

April 16-21Chicago, IL

April 25-29San Francisco, CA

June 5-8Tsukuba, Japan

where COPE is participating

organized by COPE

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Anisotropic Micro- and Nano-Capsules. Shchepelina, Olga; Kozlovskaya, Veronika; Kharlampieva, Eugenia; Mao, Wenbin; Alexeev, Alexander and Tsukruk, Vladimir V. MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS 31, 2041-2046 (2010).

ITO-free Large-area Organic Solar Cells. Choi, Seungkeun; Potscavage, Jr., William J. and Kippelen, Bernard. OPTICS EXPRESS 18, A458-A466 (2010).

Focus Issue: Thin-Film Photovoltaic Materials and Devices Introduction. Kippelen, Bernard. OPTICS EXPRESS 18, A487-A488 (2010).

An Error and Efficiency Analysis of Approximations to Moller-Plesset Perturbation Theory. Marshall, Michael S.; Sears, John S.; Burns, Lori A.; Bredas, Jean-Luc and Sherrill, C. David. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION 6, 3681-3687 (2010).

Remote Doping of a Pentacene Transistor: Control of Charge Transfer by Molecular-level Engineering. Zhao, Wei; Qi, Yabing; Sajoto, Tissa; Barlow, Stephen; Marder, Seth R. and Kahn, Antoine. APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 97, 123305 (2010).

Systematic Design of Wide-Bandwidth Photonic Crystal Waveguide Bends With High Transmission and Low Dispersion. Askari, Murtaza; Momeni, Babak; Soltani, Mohammad and Adibi, Ali. JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY 28, 1707-1713 (2010).

Comparison of Cascade, Lattice, and Parallel Filter Architectures. Patnaik, Rohit; Vandrasi, Vivek; Madsen, Christi K.; Eftekhar, Ali A. and Adibi, Ali. JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY 28, 3463-3469 (2010).

Electronic and Optical Properties of 4H-Cyclopenta[2,1-b:3,4-b`]bithiophene Derivatives and Their 4-Heteroatom-Substituted Analogues: A Joint Theoretical and Experimental Comparison. Barlow, Stephen; Odom, Susan A.; Lancaster, Kelly; Getmanenko, Yulia A.; Mason, Richard; Coropceanu, Veaceslav; Bredas, Jean-Luc and Marder, Seth R. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 114, 14397-14407 (2010).

In situ Growth of Silver Nanoparticles in Porous Membranes for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. Chang, Sehoon; Combs, Zachary A.; Gupta, Maneesh K.; Davis, Richard and Tsukruk, Vladimir V. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2, 3333-3339 (2010).

A Temperature-Insensitive Third-Order Coupled-Resonator Filter for On-Chip Terabit/s Optical Interconnects. Li, Qing; Yegnanarayanan, Siva; Soltani, Mohammad; Alipour, Payam and Adibi, Ali. IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS 22, 1768-1770 (2010).

Inverted Polymer Solar Cells with Amorphous Indium Zinc Oxide as the Electron-collecting Electrode. Cheun, Hyeunseok; Kim, Jungbae; Zhou, Yinhua; Fang, Yunnan; Dindar, Amir; Shim, Jaewon; Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek; Sandhage, Kenneth H. and Kippelen, Bernard. OPTICS EXPRESS 18, A506-A512 (2010).

Effects of Electronegative Substitution on the Optical and Electronic Properties of Acenes and Diazaacenes. Appleton, Anthony Lucas; Brombosz, Scott M.; Barlow, Stephen; Sears, John S.; Bredas, Jean-Luc; Marder, Seth R. and Bunz, Uwe H. F. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 1, 91 (2010).

Morphology-Preserving Conversion of a 3D Bioorganic Template into a Nanocrystalline Multicomponent Oxide Compound. Vernon, Jonathan P.; Fang, Yunnan; Cai, Ye and Sandhage, Kenneth H. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 49, 7765-7768 (2010).

Multipath Fading Measurements at 5.8 GHz for Backscatter Tags with Multiple Antennas. Griffin, Joshua D. and Durgin, Gregory D. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION 58, 3693-3700 (2010).

Loss Measurement of Plasmonic Modes in Planar Metal-insulator-metal Waveguides by an Attenuated Total Reflection Method. Lin, Chien-I and Gaylord, Thomas K. OPTICS LETTERS 35, 3814-3816 (2010).

Acoustic Confinement and Waveguiding with a Line-defect Structure in Phononic Crystal Slabs. Khelif, Abdelkrim; Mohammadi, Saeed; Eftekhar, Ali Asghar; Adibi, Ali and Aoubiza, Boujamaa. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 108, 084515 (2010).

Introduction to Proceedings of Molecular Quantum Mechanics 2010: From Methylene to DNA and Beyond. Bartlett, Rodney J.; Crawford, T. Daniel; Head-Gordon, Martin and Sherrill, C. David. MOLECULAR PHYSICS 108, 2437-2438 (2010).

Assessing the Performance of Density Functional Theory For the Electronic Structure of Metal-Salens: The M06 Suite of Functionals and the d(4)-Metals. Takatani, Tait; Sears, John S. and Sherrill, C. David. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 114, 11714-11718 (2010).

Thermal Excitation and Piezoresistive Detection of Cantilever In-Plane Resonance Modes for Sensing Applications. Beardslee, Luke Armitage; Addous, Assim M.; Heinrich, Stephen; Josse, Fabien; Dufour, Isabelle and Brand, Oliver. JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS 19, 1015-1017 (2010).

Highly Specular Carbon Nanotube Absorbers. Wang, X. J.; Wang, L. P.; Adewuyi, O. S.; Cola, B. A. and Zhang, Z. M. APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 97, 163116 (2010).

Investigations and Mimicry of the Optical Properties of Butterfly Wings. Summers, Christopher J.; Gaillot, Davy P.; Crne, Matija; Blair, John; Park, Jung O.; Srinivasarao, Mohan; Deparis, Olivier; Welch, Victoria and Vigneron, Jean-Pol. JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR OPTICAL PHYSICS & MATERIALS 19, 489-501 (2010).

Buckling Instabilities in Periodic Composite Polymeric Materials. Singamaneni, Srikanth and Tsukruk, Vladimir V. SOFT MATTER 6, 5681-5692 (2010).

Indium Tin Oxide-free and Metal-free Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells. Zhou, Yinhua; Cheun, Hyeunseok; Choi, Seungkeun; Potscavage, Jr., William J.; Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek and Kippelen, Bernard. APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 97, 153304 (2010).

New PublicationsInteraction of Charge Carriers with Lattice Vibrations in Oligoacene Crystals from Naphthalene to Pentacene. Sanchez-Carrera, Roel S.; Paramonov, Pavel; Day, Graeme M.; Coropceanu, Veaceslav and Bredas, Jean-Luc. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 132, 14437-14446 (2010).

A key feature of organic π-conjugated materials is the strong connection between their electronic and geometric structures. In particular, it has been recently demonstrated that nonlocal electron-vibration (electron-phonon) interactions, which are related to the modulation of the electronic couplings (transfer integrals) between adjacent molecules by lattice vibrations, play an important role in the charge-transport properties of organic semiconductors. We used density functional theory calculations and molecular mechanics simulations to estimate the strength of these nonlocal electron-vibration couplings in oligoacene crystals as a function of molecular size from naphthalene through pentacene. The effect of each optical vibrational mode on the electronic couplings was evaluated quantitatively. The results point to a very strong coupling to both intermolecular vibrational modes and intramolecular (including high-frequency) modes in all studied systems. Importantly, our results underline that the amount of relaxation energy associated with nonlocal electron-phonon coupling decreases as the size of the molecule increases. This work establishes an original relationship between chemical structure and nonlocal vibrational coupling in the description of charge transport in organic semiconductor crystals.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja1040732

Acceptor Energy Level Control of Charge Photogeneration in Organic Donor/Acceptor Blends. Shoaee, Safa; Clarke, Tracey M.; Huang, Chun; Barlow, Stephen; Marder, Seth R.; Heeney, Martin; McCulloch, Iain and Durrant, James R. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 132, 12919-12926 (2010).

n-Type Organic Semiconductors in Organic Electronics. Anthony, John E.; Facchetti, Antonio; Heeney, Martin; Marder, Seth R. and Zhan, Xiaowei. ADVANCED MATERIALS 22, 3876-3892 (2010).

Adaptive Steered Molecular Dynamics of the Long-Distance Unfolding of Neuropeptide Y. Ozer, Gungor; Valeev, Edward F.; Quirk, Stephen and Hernandez, Rigoberto. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION 6, 3026-3038 (2010).

Hybrid Photonic Surface-plasmon-polariton Ring Resonators for Sensing Applications. Chamanzar, M.; Soltani, M.; Momeni, B.; Yegnanarayanan, S. and Adibi, A. APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS 101, 263-271 (2010).

RIS Model of the Helix-Kink Conformation of Erythro Diisotactic Polynobornene. Chung, Won J.; Henderson, Clifford L. and Ludovice, Peter J. MACROMOLECULAR THEORY AND SIMULATIONS 19, 421-431 (2010).

Torsion Potential in Polydiacetylene: Accurate Computations on Oligomers Extrapolated to the Polymer Limit. Sears, John S.; Chance, Ronald R. and Bredas, Jean-Luc. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 132, 13313-13319 (2010).

Toward Ultimate Miniaturization of High Q silicon Traveling-wave Microresonators. Soltani, Mohammad; Li, Qing; Yegnanarayanan, Siva and Adibi, Ali. OPTICS EXPRESS 18, 19541-19557 (2010).

A Metallization and Bonding Approach for High Performance Carbon Nanotube Thermal Interface Materials. Cross, Robert; Cola, Baratunde A.; Fisher, Timothy; Xu, Xianfan; Gall, Ken and Graham, Samuel. NANOTECHNOLOGY 21, 445705 (2010).

Effect of Solvent Choice on Breath-figure-templated Assembly of Holey Polymer Films. Sharma, Vivek; Song, Lulu; Jones, Richard L.; Barrow, Matthew S.; Williams, Rhodri and Srinivasarao, Mohan. EPL 91, 38001 (2010).

Nonlinear Optical Properties of Induced Transmission Filters. Owens, Daniel T.; Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek; Hales, Joel M.; Perry, Joseph W. and Kippelen, Bernard. OPTICS EXPRESS 18, 19101-19113 (2010).

Observation of a Trapping Transition in the Diffusion of a Thick Needle through Fixed Point Scatterers. Tucker, Ashley K. and Hernandez, Rigoberto. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 114, 9628-9634 (2010).

Liquid-Phase Chemical Sensing Using Lateral Mode Resonant Cantilevers. Beardslee, L. A.; Demirci, K. S.; Luzinova, Y.; Mizaikoff, B.; Heinrich, S. M.; Josse, F. and Brand, O. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 82, 7542-7549 (2010).

Feasibility of Passive Wireless Sensors Based on Reflected Electro-Material Signatures. Hasan, Azhar; Peterson, Andrew F. and Durgin, Gregory D. APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS SOCIETY JOURNAL 25, 552-560 (2010).

Multitiered 2D pi-Stacked Conjugated Polymers Based on Pseudo-Geminal Disubstituted [2.2]Paracyclophane. Jagtap, Subodh P. and Collard, David M. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 132, 12208-12209 (2010).

The Evolution Study of Thin Film Structure During The Film Formation. Park, Min Sang; Aiyar, Avisheck; Park, Jung Ok; Reichmanis, Elsa and Srinivasarao, Mohan. XXII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY1267, 704-705 (2010).

Tuning the Optoelectronic Properties of Vinylene-Linked Donor-Acceptor Copolymers for Organic Photovoltaics. Ko, Sangwon; Mondal, Rajib; Risko, Chad; Lee, Jung Kyu; Hong, Sanghyun; McGehee, Michael D.; Bredas, Jean-Luc and Bao, Zhenan. MACROMOLECULES 43, 6685-6698 (2010).

Surface Behavior of PSn(P2VP-b-PtBA)(n) Heteroarm Stars. Choi, I.; Gunawidjaja, R.; Suntivich, R.; Tsitsilianis, C. and Tsukruk, V. V. MACROMOLECULES 43, 6818-6828 (2010).

Replication of Anisotropic Dispersed Particulates and Complex Continuous Templates. Shchepelina, Olga; Kozlovskaya, Veronika; Singamaneni, Srikanth; Kharlampieva, Eugenia and Tsukruk, Vladimir V. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 20, 6587-6603 (2010).

Ambipolar Thin-film Transistors with a Co-planar Channel Geometry. Kim, J. B.; Fuentes-Hernandez, C.; Kim, S. -J.; Potscavage, Jr., W. J.; Choi, S. and Kippelen, B. ORGANIC ELECTRONICS 11, 1351-1356 (2010).

Responsive Microcapsule Reactors Based on Hydrogen-bonded Tannic Acid Layer-by-layer Assemblies. Kozlovskaya, Veronika; Kharlampieva, Eugenia; Drachuk, Irina; Cheng, Derek and Tsukruk, Vladimir V. SOFT MATTER 6, 3596-3608 (2010).

Molecular Recognition in the Digital Radio Domain. Hunt, William D.; Edmonson, Peter J.; Stubbs, Desmond D. and Lee, Sang-Hun. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 49, 07HA02 (2010).

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Contributions to the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Thin Ag Films. Owens, Daniel T.; Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek; Hales, Joel M.; Perry, Joseph W. and Kippelen, Bernard. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 107, 123114 (2010).

Density Fitting of Intramonomer Correlation Effects in Symmetry-adapted Perturbation Theory. Hohenstein, Edward G. and Sherrill, C. David. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 133, 014101 (2010).

Inverted Organic Solar Cells with ITO Electrodes Modified with an Ultrathin Al2O3 Buffer Layer Deposited by Atomic Layer Deposition. Zhou, Yinhua; Cheun, Hyeunseok; Potscavage, Jr., Willliam J.; Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek; Kim, Sung-Jin and Kippelen, Bernard. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 20, 6189-6194 (2010).

Comparison of Thiophene-Pyrrole Oligomers with Oligothiophenes: A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Their Structural and Spectroscopic Properties. Moreno Oliva, Maria; Pappenfus, Ted M.; Melby, Jacob H.; Schwaderer, Kathryn M.; Johnson, Jared C.; McGee, Karl A.; da Silva Filho, Demetrio A.; Bredas, Jean-Luc; Casado, Juan and Lopez Navarrete, Juan T. CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL 16, 6866-6876 (2010).

An On-chip Silicon Grating Spectrometer Using a Photonic Crystal Reflector. Momeni, B. and Askari, M.; Hosseini, E. Shah; Atabaki, A. and Adibi, A. JOURNAL OF OPTICS 12, 035501 (2010).

Near Net-shape/Net-dimension ZrC/W-based Composites with Complex Geometries via Rapid Prototyping and Displacive Compensation of Porosity. Lipke, David W.; Zhang, Yunshu; Liu, Yajun; Church, Benjamin C. and Sandhage, Kenneth H. JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 30, 2265-2277 (2010).

Charge-Transfer Localization in Molecularly Doped Thiophene-Based Donor Polymers. Pingel, Patrick; Zhu, Lingyun; Park, Kue Surk; Vogel, Joern-Oliver; Janietz, Silvia; Kim, Eung-Gun; Rabe, Juergen P.; Bredas, Jean-Luc and Koch, Norbert. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS 1, 2037-2041 (2010).

Thiophene-rich Fused-aromatic Thienopyrazine Acceptor for Donor-acceptor Low Band-gap Polymers for OTFT and Polymer Solar Cell Applications. Mondal, Rajib; Becerril, Hector A.; Verploegen, Eric; Kim, Dongwook; Norton, Joseph E.; Ko, Sangwon; Miyaki, Nobuyuki; Lee, Sangjun; Toney, Michael F.; Bredas, Jean-Luc; McGehee, Michael D. and Bao, Zhenan. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 20, 5823-5834 (2010).

Raman Scattering Study of Phase Biaxiality in a Thermotropic Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal. Park, Min Sang; Yoon, Beom-Jin; Park, Jung Ok; Prasad, Veena; Kumar, Satyendra and Srinivasarao, Mohan. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 105, 027801 (2010).

Hexagonal and Cubic TiOF2. Shian, Samuel and Sandhage, Kenneth H. JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 43, 757-761 (2010).

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Name Title Department Email Office Adibi, Ali Professor ECE ali.adibi@ece.gatech.edu BH 105Bidstrup Allen, Sue Ann Professor ChBE sue.allen@carnegie.gatech.edu ES&T 1370Brand, Oliver Associate Professor ECE oliver.brand@ece.gatech.edu MIRC 219Brédas, Jean-Luc Director of Intl. Programs, Regents' Professor Chem & Biochem jean-luc.bredas@chemistry.gatech.edu MoSE 2100MBucknall, David Professor MSE david.bucknall@ptfe.gatech.edu MRDC 4503Chang, GK Professor ECE geekung.chang@ece.gatech.edu Centergy 5120Cola, Baratunde Assistant Professor ME baratunde.cola@me.gatech.edu MRDC 2207Collard, David Professor Chem & Biochem david.collard@chemistry.gatech.edu MoSE 2100JDurgin, Gregory Assistant Professor ECE gregory.durgin@ece.gatech.edu   VL E511Filler, Michael Assistant Professor ChBE michael.filler@chbe.gatech.edu ES&T L1218Gaylord, Tom Regents’ Professor ECE tom.gaylord@ece.gatech.edu VL W419Graham, Samuel Associate Professor ME sam.graham@me.gatech.edu   Love 339Henderson, Cliff Associate Professor ChBE cliff.henderson@chbe.gatech.edu ES&T 1226Hernandez, Rigoberto Associate Professor Chem & Biochem rigoberto.hernandez@chemistry.gatech.edu MoSE 2100LHunt, Bill Professor ECE bill.hunt@ece.gatech.edu MIRC 221Kippelen, Bernard Director, Professor ECE kippelen@ece.gatech.edu   MoSE 4239Marder, Seth Associate Director, Professor Chem & Biochem seth.marder@chemistry.gatech.edu   MoSE 1100MMartin, Jason Director of Marketing & Communications Chem & Biochem jason.martin@chemistry.gatech.edu MoSE 4100CPerry, Joseph Associate Director, Professor Chem & Biochem joe.perry@chemistry.gatech.edu   MoSE G209BReichmanis, Elsa Professor ChBE elsa.reichmanis@chbe.gatech.edu ES&T 1230Riedo, Elisa Associate Professor Physics elisa.riedo@physics.gatech.edu   Howey N107Robin, Kourtnie Program Manager ECE kourtnie.robin@ece.gatech.edu MoSE 4100CSandhage, Ken B. Mifflin Hood Professor MSE ken.sandhage@mse.gatech.edu MoSE 3100LSchuster, Gary Vasser Woolley Professor Chem & Biochem schuster@gatech.edu Boggs 1-35Sherrill, David Professor Chem & Biochem david.sherrill@chemistry.gatech.edu MoSE 2100NSrinivasarao, Mohan Professor Chem & Biochem mohan.srinivasarao@ptfe.gatech.edu MRDC 1 4506Tolbert, Laren Regents' Professor Chem & Biochem laren.tolbert@chemistry.gatech.edu MoSE 1100LTsukruk, Vladimir Professor MSE vladimir@mse.gatech.edu MoSE 4100KZhang, John Professor Chem & Biochem john.zhang@chemistry.gatech.edu MoSE 1100N

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Directory (Management & Faculty)

Research CapabilitiesBroadband Transient Absorption Spectroscopy• Monitoring of transient changes in optical properties to provide

broadband spectral information (300 nm – 1.7 µm) and ultrafast temporal resolution (from milliseconds down to femtoseconds)

• Evaluation of the charge-transfer/recombination kinetics in potential photovoltaic materials

• Generation of non-linear absorption spectra of target organic materials that could be used in all-optical signal processing applications

Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy • Femtosecond-pulsed Z-scan and degenerate four-wave mixing for

absolute determination of third-order optical nonlinearities• Determination of molecular nonlinearities as a function of chemical

structure variation

Microfabrication• Patterning of materials with true three-dimensional (3D) spatial

resolution including photonic crystals, microchannel and microfluidic devices, and biocompatible templates

Material Synthesis and Purification• Wet chemistry laboratory covering over 2000 sq ft, including 25

fume hoods, and containing state-of-the-art equipment

Physical, Chemical, and Optical Material Characterization• Gas chromatograph-mass spectrometry• High-pressure liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

• UV/VIS/NIR spectrophotometry• Spectrofluorimetry• FT-IR spectrometry• Electrochemistry• Thermogravimetric analysis • Thermal analysis of materials using differential scanning calorimeter

(Q200, TA Instruments)• Gas permeation chromatography for the measurement of molecular

weights and molecular weight distributions of polymers

Surface Analysis• FT-IR characterization techniques that are surface-sensitive or

suitable for thin film analysis such as specular reflectance, diffuse reflectance, attenuated total reflectance, grazing angle specular reflectance

• Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) using an Agilent 5600LS for the characterization of surface properties through a wide range of imaging techniques: topography in contact or tapping mode, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), lateral force microscopy (LFM), electric force microscopy (EFM), Kelvin force microscopy, piezo-force microscopy, fluid immersed imaging, and for electrochemical microscopy of samples, and the system can be used as a nanolithography tool

• X-ray photoelectron spectrometry (XPS) using an Axis Ultra HSA, Kratos, characterized by high-energy resolution and high sensitivity, for the determination of elemental composition of surfaces with surface mapping capabilities and an integrated ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) unit

Center for Organic Photonics & ElectronicsGeorgia Institute of Technology

Molecular Science & Engineering Building901 Atlantic Drive, Suite 4100C

Atlanta, GA 30332-0400

Happy New Year, to you all. The start of 2011 brings new responsibilities for me as I assume the position of Director of COPE after a year of leadership transition. Succeeding my predecessor and good colleague Seth Marder, the founding Director of COPE, is a tremendous responsibility. He leaves big shoes

Director’s Note

to fill and I would like to take this opportunity to recognize the incredible legacy of his tenure during the past seven years and thank him for his vision, his passion for science both in research and teaching, and the relentless energy he has dedicated in building new collaborations across Schools on campus that resulted in large multidisciplinary research programs. Under his leadership COPE has expanded and currently counts 25 faculty members from 6 different Schools and has become an internationally recognized hub for technology-driven research and a resource for industrial collaborations in the field of organic photonics and electronics. During the past year, the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics has continued to make significant advances inside and outside the laboratory. It has acquired some new instrumentation that will provide the Center with additional material characterization capabilities. I am pleased that events like the inaugural Georgia Tech-COPE Distinguished Lecture Series organized by Jean-Luc Bredas were well received by the community and we plan to build on such successes in the year to come. COPE’s faculty have been awarded several sizeable new multi-investigator research programs from industry and federal agencies such as the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research, or the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. I also thank our industrial partners for their support of COPE through their membership in our newly created Industrial Affiliates Program. The year 2010 has also been a year of transition at Georgia Tech with the announcement of a new strategic plan and the appointments of Steve Cross as new Executive Vice-President of Research and Raphael Bras as Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs. I am particularly pleased that COPE’s mission and vision are strategically aligned with Georgia’s Tech new strategic plan.

In 2010, the field of organic photonics and electronics has continued to grow and is impacting a wide spectrum of new products and technology areas. For instance, market research companies estimated the market for flexible and printed electronics at $2B and project a growth to $20B by 2017. With its broad technology base for innovation the US can compete in this emerging field. Organic and printed electronics can become an important opportunity for awakening manufacturing in the US and adding new jobs. With the expertise and infrastructure on campus, Georgia Tech and COPE have an opportunity to contribute to shape this new industry. I am also happy to welcome to COPE our newest faculty member, Dr. Gary Schuster. While assuming some of the highest administrative leadership positions at Georgia Tech, Gary has played an essential role in the creation of COPE. Now that he has returned to research full time, he brings expertise in the self-organizing properties of DNA and how it can be used to prepare conducting nanomaterials. We are looking forward to his contributions. It’s truly an exciting time to contribute to the growth of an emerging field of technology like organic photonics and electronics. To help shape the field, the Center will strive to continually improve the quality and expand the breadth of its educational, research, and technology-transfer activities, while cultivating a diverse atmosphere of inclusiveness. I thank the faculty members, students, researchers, staff, and industrial partners that make it possible and look forward to taking on new challenges over the coming months with their continued participation and support.

Sincerely,

Bernard KippelenDirector, COPE

http://www.cope.gatech.edu

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