Infrared Fingerprint Engineering: A Molecular-Design Approach to Long-Wave Infrared Transparency with Polymeric Materials

Tristan S. Kleine; Taeheon Lee; Kyle J. Carothers; Meghan O. Hamilton; Laura E. Anderson; Liliana Ruiz Diaz; Nicholas P. Lyons; Keith R. Coasey; Wallace O. Parker; Ludovico Borghi; Michael E. Mackay; Kookheon Char; Richard S Glass; Dennis L. Lichtenberger; Robert A. Norwood; Jeffrey Pyun

doi:10.1002/anie.201910856

Infrared Fingerprint Engineering: A Molecular-Design Approach to Long-Wave Infrared Transparency with Polymeric Materials

Tristan S. Kleine, Taeheon Lee, Kyle J. Carothers, Meghan O. Hamilton, Laura E. Anderson, Liliana Ruiz Diaz, Nicholas P. Lyons, Keith R. Coasey, Wallace O. Parker, Ludovico Borghi, Michael E. Mackay, Kookheon Char, Richard S Glass, Dennis L. Lichtenberger, Robert A. Norwood, Jeffrey Pyun

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Optical technologies in the long-wave infrared (LWIR) spectrum (7–14 μm) offer important advantages for high-resolution thermal imaging in near or complete darkness. The use of polymeric transmissive materials for IR imaging offers numerous cost and processing advantages but suffers from inferior optical properties in the LWIR spectrum. A major challenge in the design of LWIR-transparent organic materials is that nearly all organic molecules absorb in this spectral window which lies within the so-called IR-fingerprint region. We report on a new molecular-design approach to prepare high refractive index polymers with enhanced LWIR transparency. Computational methods were used to accelerate the design of novel molecules and polymers. Using this approach, we have prepared chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers (CHIPs) with enhanced LWIR transparency and thermomechanical properties via inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur with new organic co-monomers.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	17656-17660
Number of pages	5
Journal	Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume	58
Issue number	49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201910856
State	Published - Dec 2 2019

Keywords

computational simulations
long-wave infrared imaging
optical polymers
sulfur utilization

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Catalysis
General Chemistry

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Kleine, T. S., Lee, T., Carothers, K. J., Hamilton, M. O., Anderson, L. E., Ruiz Diaz, L., Lyons, N. P., Coasey, K. R., Parker, W. O., Borghi, L., Mackay, M. E., Char, K., Glass, R. S., Lichtenberger, D. L., Norwood, R. A., & Pyun, J. (2019). Infrared Fingerprint Engineering: A Molecular-Design Approach to Long-Wave Infrared Transparency with Polymeric Materials. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 58(49), 17656-17660. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201910856

Kleine, TS, Lee, T, Carothers, KJ, Hamilton, MO, Anderson, LE, Ruiz Diaz, L, Lyons, NP, Coasey, KR, Parker, WO, Borghi, L, Mackay, ME, Char, K, Glass, RS, Lichtenberger, DL , Norwood, RA & Pyun, J 2019, 'Infrared Fingerprint Engineering: A Molecular-Design Approach to Long-Wave Infrared Transparency with Polymeric Materials', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 58, no. 49, pp. 17656-17660. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201910856

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