ICorps: Polymer Semiconductor Educational Kits

ICorps：聚合物半导体教育套件

• 批准号: 1903691
• 负责人: Michael Walter
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1903691&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ICorps; Polymer; Semiconductor; Educational; Kits

The broader impacts of this I-Corps project are to improve hands-on laboratory experiences in the field of materials science and to increase STEM awareness for students/instructors at the 9-12 and undergraduate levels. The educational kit bridges the gap between theoretical and practical molecular materials technologies. The kit is an interactive learning tool designed for interdisciplinary laboratory activities and can be used in physics, chemistry, engineering, and material science educational settings. The kits provide all needed materials, a fully developed curriculum, and training for implementation. Professional development workshops for instructors help to integrate the laboratory activities into instructor?s existing science curriculum while addressing national and international science standards. There is a significant market for hands-on laboratory activities that incorporate contemporary science experiments currently under investigation and development at the university level. School districts and science / engineering departments will likely be interested in acquiring the kits, making them a commercially impactful and important education platform. The kit is flexible and can be expanded upon to include future experiments and professional development. The kits can also be used and developed for extracurricular activities such as science fairs and competitions.This I-Corps project involves a polymer electronics laboratory kit to improve materials science education for 9-12 and undergraduate students. The three-module kit and curriculum use polymer semiconductors to provide hands-on inquiry activities integrating themes of electrical conductivity, light emission, and light-harvesting solar energy conversion. These themes are critical to contemporary materials science research and education. The kit includes materials to evaluate the electrical properties of conductive colloidal polyaniline inks, to construct a polymer light- emitting diode using polyphenylene vinylene, and to build a polymer solar cell using semiconductive polymers and nanoparticulate TiO2. Designed initially for high school science classrooms, the activities developed also meet new collegiate undergraduate education requirements for macromolecular, supramolecular, and nanoscale systems in the curriculum and can be used in undergraduate teaching laboratories. The modules and kit have also been implemented in professional development workshops for training 9−12 science educators to help integrate the laboratory activities into their curriculum.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响是改善材料科学领域的实验室实验室经验，并提高9-12和本科生的学生/讲师的STEM意识。教育套件弥合了理论和实际分子材料技术之间的差距。该套件是一种互动学习工具，专为跨学科实验室活动而设计，可用于物理，化学，工程和材料科学教育环境。这些套件提供了所有必要的材料，完整开发的课程以及实施培训。讲师的专业发展研讨会有助于将实验室活动纳入讲师的现有科学课程，同时涉及国家和国际科学标准。动手实验室活动有一个重要的市场，该市场纳入了目前正在大学一级正在调查和发展的当代科学实验。学区和科学 /工程部门可能有兴趣获取工具包，使其成为商业上影响力和重要的教育平台。该套件是灵活的，可以扩展，以包括将来的实验和专业发展。这些套件也可以用于课外活动，例如科学博览会和竞争。该I-Corps项目涉及一个聚合物电子实验室套件，以改善9至12岁和本科生的材料科学教育。三模块试剂盒和课程使用聚合物半导体，以提供动手的询问活动，以整合电导率，光发射和轻度收获太阳能转换为主题。这些主题对于当代材料科学研究和教育至关重要。该套件包括评估导电胶体聚苯胺油墨的电性能的材料，以使用聚苯乙烯乙烯基构建聚合物发光二极管，并使用半导体聚合物和纳米含量构建聚合物太阳能电池。这些活动最初是为高中科学教室设计的，还满足了课程中大分子，超分子和纳米级系统的新大学本科教育要求，并且可以用于本科教学实验室。该模块和套件也已在培训9＆＃8722; 12的科学教育工作者的专业发展研讨会上实施，以帮助将实验室活动整合到其课程中。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估审查标准来通过评估来支持的。

项目成果

Theoretical background on semiconducting polymers and their applications to OSCs and OLEDs

• DOI: 10.1515/cti-2020-0020
• 发表时间: 2021-06-30
• 期刊: CHEMISTRY TEACHER INTERNATIONAL
• 作者: Luscombe, Christine K.;Maitra, Uday;Wiedmer, Susanne K.
• 通讯作者: Wiedmer, Susanne K.