The influence of axial substituent on the photoluminescence of boron subphthalocyanines

Canadian public and private researchers have taken an interest in a new class of light-emitting materials, subphthalocyanines, which can produce better colour in OLED smartphone and television screens. The materials can be optimized for specific purposes by using slightly different ingredients in their synthesis, or by reacting them with other ingredients after synthesis, but most of the variants studied so far have not had the additional step of further reaction taken. This has left a blind spot in potential methods to optimize the materials, which this internship will fill in. This project will produce a large variety of subphthalocyanines which have undergone further reactions, and measure their performance using a rapid-analysis method developed through a previous MITACs internship.

Faculty Supervisor:

Timothy Bender

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Partner:

Amber Molecular Inc.

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

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