| People
- Faculty
- Professor:
Fred Wudl |
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Organic Chemistry, Materials |
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| Email: |
wudl@chem.ucsb.edu |
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(805)
893-5817 |
Fax:
(805)
893-4120 |
| Office: |
Elings Hall 3213 |
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Selected
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| Bio: |
B.S. 1964, UCLA; Ph.D. 1967, UCLA; Postdoctoral, 1967 - 1968, Harvard University; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1989; William Rauscher Lecturer in Chemistry Award awarded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, September 1992; Karcher Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, 1992; Peter A. Leermakers Lecturer, 1992; 3M Lecturer, University of British Columbia, 1992; Stouffer Award, University of Southern California, 1993; Arthur D. Little Award, 1993; American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1993; Wheland Medal, University of Chicago, 1994; The "Giulio Natta" Medal, Italian Chemical Society, Rome, Italy, 1994; American Chemical Society Award for Chemistry of Materials, 1996; Bayer Lecturer, Cornell University, 1996; Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 2004; Tolman Medal, 2006; co-Director CPOS 2006; Acting Associate Director, CNSI, 2008.
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Research
Interests
Currently we are interested in the optical and electro optical properties of processable conjugated polymers, as well as in the organic chemistry of fullerenes, and the design and the preparation of self-mending polymers. We have been studying single component re-mending polymers. Below we show the results of a mechanical properties study where the birefringence is correlated with deformation of the material.
We continue to perform research on plastic solar cells with the goal of developing new materials to improve the efficiency of the solar cells within the concepts developed at UCSB over a decade ago, as well as employing possible new concepts.
The Most Stable and Fully Characterized Functionalized Heptacene
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Organic Electronics: From Materials to Devices. Yang, Y.; Wudl, F. Advanced Materials (Weinheim, Germany), 2009, 21(14-15), 1401-1403. |
High throughput screening and measurements of proton conductivity of newly developed PEM materials based on proton transport visualization. Ivanovskaya, A.; Fan, J.; Wudl, F.; Stucky, G. D. Journal of Membrane Science, 2009, 330(1-2), 326-333. |
Heteroanalogues of PCBM: n-bridged imino-PCBMs for organic field-effect transistors. Yang, C,; Cho, S.; Heeger, A. J.; Wudl, F. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 2009, 48(9), 1592-1595. |
Towards development of a self-healing composite using a mendable polymer and resistive heating. Park, J. S.; Takahashi, K.; Guo, Z.; Wang, Y.; Bolanos, E.; Hamann-Schaffner, C.; Murphy, E.; Wudl, F.; Hahn, H. T. Journal of Composite Materials, 2008, 42(26), 2869-2881. |
Visible-Near Infrared Absorbing Dithienylcyclopentadienone-Thiophene Copolymers for Organic Thin-Film Transistors. Yang, C.; Cho, S.; Chiechi, R. C.; Walker, W.; Coates, N. E.; Moses, D.; Heeger, A.; Wudl, F. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, 130(49), 16524-16526. |
The Most Stable and Fully Characterized Functionalized Heptacene. Chun, D.; Cheng, Y.; Wudl, F. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 2008, 47(44), 8380-8385.
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Visible and Near-Infrared Absorbing, Low Band Gap Conjugated Oligomers Based on Cyclopentadieneones. Walker, W.; Veldman, B.; Chiechi, R.; Patil, S.; Bendikov, M.; Wudl, F. Macromolecules (Washington, DC, United States), 2008, 41(20), 7278-7280. |
| Hydrogen Cyano Fullerene Derivatives as Acid for Proton Conducting Membranes. Tasaki, K.; Venkatesan, A.; Wang, H.; Jousselme, B.; Stucky, G.; Wudl, F. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2008, 155(10), B1077-B1084.
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Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Framework Structures: Influence of Cation Size on Metal-Oxygen-Metal Connectivity in the Alkaline Earth Thiazolothiazoledicarboxylates. Falcao, E. H. L.; Naraso; Feller, R. K.; Wu, G.; Wudl, F.; Cheetham, A. K. Inorganic Chemistry (Washington, DC, United States), 2008, 47(18), 8336-8342.
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| Synthesis and Characterization of a Single-Component Thermally Remendable Polymer Network: Staudinger and Stille Revisite. Murphy, E. B.; Bolanos, E.; Schaffner-Hamann, C.; Wudl, F.; Nutt, S. R.; Auad, M. L. Macromolecules (Washington, DC, United States), 2008, 41(14), 5203-5209.
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