The mission of the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChemE) is to generate knowledge and educate people in the area of nano-chemical engineering to improve the quality of life for a sustainable society, focusing on energy, water, health and the environment.
The Opto-Electronic Materials section is part of the Chemical Engineering Department of the Faculty of Applied Sciences. Our key interest is studying the nature and dynamics of short-lived, intermediate excited states (excitons) and charge carriers within complex materials such as functional polymers, self-assembling molecular aggregates, inorganic nanoparticles, inorganic/organic composites and DNA.
Job description
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are hybrid, crystalline materials consisting of inorganic and organic building blocks. MOFs are of interest for application in catalysis, storage, separation, sensing and opto-electronic devices such as MOF-based light-emitting diodes (MOF-LEDs). The current project is a collaboration between Delft University of Technology and Philips Research.
Recent MOF research at TU Delft has led to the development of an electroluminescent MOF-based device that can be cast in flexible sheets with light emission over a large surface area. The source of the phenomenon is not clear.
