Hybrid Materials Research Initiative

The Rutgers-Camden Hybrid Materials Research Initiative is a coalition of faculty members from the departments of Chemistry and Physics, who all have research interests in the area of materials research.

New materials blur the conventional divisions into organic or inorganic, crystal or polymer, insulator or conductor. Materials studied here in Camden include conducting polymers, such as polyacetylene, with almost unlimited applications in electronics - the Nobel prize in Chemistry for 2000 was awarded to the pioneers of this field. Also studied here are quantum dots, small regions of inorganic semi-conducting material embedded in an organic polymer matrix, that also have applications in electronic devices.

This page last revised 4/9/01