2022年12月13日，受天津大学胡文平教授邀请，英国牛津大学Iain McCulloch教授通过线上平台向师生做了题为“Organic Semiconductor Chemistry and Application Development”的学术报告。

  有机半导体可广泛应用于柔性显示、透明太阳电池、生物传感器、太阳燃料等，了解有机半导体化学设计对性能的影响至关重要。Iain McCulloch在报告中表示，为建立基本的结构性能关系，McCulloch教授课题组探索了一系列合成策略、研究分子设计以及相关分子形态和光电特性。McCulloch教授介绍了半导体聚合物的设计表征及其薄膜形态、在场效应和电化学晶体管中电荷输运性能提升等内容。此外，McCulloch教授还介绍了相关研究在太阳燃料中的新兴应用。

Iain McCulloch教授学术报告

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报告后，McCulloch详细解答了线上师生的相关提问，线上交流活跃，师生受益匪浅。本次精彩报告吸引科研云-B站、科研云-视频号、科研云-微博、科研云-知乎、科研云-抖音、科研云-快手、科研云-百度、科研云-YouTube、科研云-Facebook直播平台相关领域专业观众累计2.2万余人在线参与观看。

报告人简介：

Iain McCulloch is a Professor of Polymer Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford since 2020. Prior to this, he held joint appointments as Professor of Chemical Science and Director of KAUST Solar Center at KAUST, as well as a Chair in Polymer Materials in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College.  Previously, he spent 18 years managing industrial research groups at Hoechst in the US and Merck in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the European Academy of Sciences and a Member of Academia Europaea. He is the recipient of the 2022 Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers Prize, 2020 Blaise Pascal Medal for Materials Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry 2020 Interdisciplinary Prize, 2014 Tilden Medal for Advances in Chemistry and the 2009 Creativity in Industry Prize. His interests are in the design and investigation of organic semiconducting materials.