{"id":2,"date":"2011-05-11T19:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/poler-research\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:46:01","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/poler-research\/","title":{"rendered":"About Poler Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Poler Research Group consists of students from the Nanoscale Science Ph.D. program<\/a>, the Optical Science and Engineering Ph.D.<\/a> program, the Master\u2019s of Science program in Chemistry<\/a>, Undergraduates from various disciplines (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Engineering, and Math), and High School students from around the state.\u00a0 We pursue fundamental studies of molecular and nanoscale systems to understand directed and self-assembly processes.\u00a0 We aim to design new particles and materials with higher functionality and effectiveness.\u00a0 Our long-term interests are toward: novel mechanisms for mechanical transducers and sensors in NEMS, energy storage in supercapacitors, catalytic solar fuel production, water purification, and optical metamaterials.<\/p>\n

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We start by synthesizing novel coordination complexes that have useful and tunable spectral, electrochemical, and mechanical properties.\u00a0 We synthesize and purify single walled carbon nanotubes.\u00a0 We use various metal nanoparticles, quantum dots, and nanostructured carbons linked together by our coordination complexes to form higher order hybrid-nanomaterials.\u00a0 Some of these novel particles can be assembled into supraparticle assemblies with novel properties and function.<\/p>\n

\"UNC<\/a>Students in the Poler Research Group use many of the facilities and techniques in the Center for Optics and Optoelectronics<\/a>, the Regional Analytical Chemistry Lab<\/a> and the Department of Chemistry<\/a>.\u00a0 Students are trained in clean room techniques (deposition, etching, growth, characterization).\u00a0 Students use various microscopy techniques including SEM, TEM, AFM, and STM.\u00a0 We use various spectroscopic methods such as: UV-Vis-NIR, Raman, IR, NMR, ESI-MS, circular dichroism, and fluoresce spectroscopy (steady state and time resolved).\u00a0 Materials and dispersions are also characterized by various thermal and mechanical methods including DMA, DSC, TGA, and isothermal titration calorimetry.\u00a0 Students use Static and Dynamic Particle sizing and zeta potential measurements on nanoparticle dispersions.\u00a0 We also support our experimental observations with computational modeling using the Materials Studio<\/a> suite.\u00a0 We use high level DFT calculations on large cluster systems by running on multiple parallel processors maintained by the High Performance Computing<\/a> center at UNC Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Our work has been supported by the NSF<\/a>, DoD<\/a>, ACS PRF<\/a>, Research Corporation<\/a>, North Carolina Biotechnology Center<\/a>, CRDF Global<\/a>, Eurasia Foundation<\/a>, the NC Space Grant<\/a> program and the US EPA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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