In the HEL4CHIROLED project, the principal research goal is the preparation of chiral Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) and Organic Light-Emissive Transistors (OLETs) based on new small helical molecules, helical pi-conjugated oligomers, and helical lanthanide complexes.
Such knowledge will provide a paradigm shift in OLED technologies, developing new material sets and approaches that take advantage of i) the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect for improved performance in OLEDs and ii) the emission of circularly polarized light (CPL) to improve the performance of displays based on OLEDs, and to allow for additional functionality stereoscopic displays, enhanced bandwidth optical communication, etc). Efficient circularly polarized (CP) emissive OLEDs and OLETs and Spin Selective devices (Spin-OLEDs and Spin-OLETs) are targeted.
The combination of both, academic and private sector, will be critical to accomplish the scientific objectives, as well as to enhance the training environment.
HEL4CHIROLED will:
- Create a research and training environment that is world-leading and optimally tailored to capitalise, for example, on the investment that has been made on chirality-related technologies.
- The ESRs will be trained in world-leading laboratories and/or in private beneficiaries and will benefit from the exchange of best practice among beneficiaries and partners, and from unique training events.
- Ensure that European research remains competitive in the global market, and that the trained researchers will be uniquely well-placed to contribute to the development of novel optoelectronic devices, displays and imaging technology of the future.
Titles of the ESR-projects:
- Development of chiral polymers for spin-filtering technology and opto-electronic devices.
Host: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Rennes 1, France (under condition that the ongoing amendment process is signed).
Main supervisor: Jeanne Crassous (jeanne.crassous@univ-rennes1.fr).
Necessary to send the application form also to N. del Rio (natalia.del-rio@univ-rennes1.fr).
- Molecular systems with optimized CPL and spin-selection properties. Synthesis and properties of nonpolar nanocarbons.
Host: Institute of Organic Chemistry & Biochemistry, Academy of Science of the Czech Republique, Czech Republique.
Main supervisor: Irena G. Stara (irena.stara@uochb.cas.cz).
- Chiral lanthanide complexes with strong CPL activity for chiral OLEDs.
Host: Dipartimento di Chimica and Chimica Industriale, University of Pisa, Italy.
Main supervisor: Lorenzo Di Bari (lorenzo.dibari@unipi.it).
Necessary to send the application form also to Maria G. Viola (mg.viola@unipi.it).
- New chiral emitters for chiral devices.
Host: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, United Kingdom.
Main supervisor: Matthew Fuchter (m.fuchter@imperial.ac.uk).
- Chiral lanthanide complexes with strong CPL activity and biological assays and for opto-electronics.
Host: FScan, start-up from Durham University, United Kingdom.
Main supervisor: Robert Pal (robert.pal@dur.ac.uk).
- Development of chiral opto-electronic devices based on helicenes. Spin-filtering technology.
Host: Departments of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute, Isräel.
Main supervisor: Ron Naaman (ron.naaman@weizmann.ac.il), Karen Michaeli (karen.michaeli@weizmann.ac.il).
- Development of spin-OLETs for optimized performance in light-emitting, transistors and organic photovoltaic technologies.
Host: Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
Main supervisor: Richard Friend (rhf10@cam.ac.uk).
You will also need to submit a formal application to the University of Cambridge for a PhD in Physics. For additional information, see the following website: www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/pcphpdphy.
- CD imaging of chiral semi-conducting π-conjugated polymers.
Host: Diamond Light Source, United Kingdom.
Main supervisor: Guiliano Siligardi (giuliano.siligardi@diamond.ac.uk).
- Development of chiral opto-electronic devices.
Host: Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Imperial College, United Kingdom.
Main supervisor: Matthew Fuchter (m.fuchter@imperial.ac.uk).
- Cationic helicenes derivatives for strong CPL activity and derived applications.
Host: Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Main supervisor: Jérôme Lacour (jerome.lacour@unige.ch).
Necessary to send the application form also to Myriam Alvarado (Myriam.Alvarado@unige.ch) and N. de Coulon-Zehnder (Nathalie.DeCoulon@unige.ch).
- Development of BODIPY-based organic materials and synthetic methodologies towards scale up.
Host: ADVENT Technologies, Greece.
Main supervisor: Christos Chochos (cchochos@advent-energy.com).
Eligibility criteria:
The positions are open to all nationalities. At the time of hiring (i.e. at the start of the contract), applicants may not have lived or carried out their main activity in the country of the host institution for more than 12 months in the last 3 years (except refugees).
PhD fellows must, at the date of starting their contract, be within the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree.
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