Organic materials are widely used in optics because they have readily tunable interactions with electromagnetic radiation. We are primarily interested in pushing the boundaries in controlling light-matter interactions with organic materials by creating chiroptical materials, which could be useful in quantum optics, and ultra-fast electrochromic materials, which could be useful in multispectral sensing. We do this by controlling the higher-order structure of polymer materials, including by installing porosity or chirality in these materials. These goals frequently require us to engineer devices that host mixed ionic-electronic conductivity. This work is funded by the Army Research Office. 

Key Papers on Electrochromic Devices

Rapid Cathodic Coloration in Solution-Processable Electrochromic Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity 2024 Submitted

Electroactive Ionic Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity for High-Performance Capacitive Energy Storage. Hasan et al., 2024 Adv. Mater. 2405924

Key Papers on Chiroptical Materials

Readily Accessible, Versatile, and Adaptive Biaxially Chiral Chromophores. Brown et al., 2024 J. Am. Chem. Soc. Accepted