Professor Holmes returned from Cambridge University to work in the new $100 million Bio21 Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Institute.
Professor Holmes was awarded the inaugural VESKI Victorian Innovation Fellowship worth over $500,000 over five years. Professor Holmes took up his position in October 2004.
Research Project Title: Organic Optoelectronic Materials: Next Generation Semiconductors
Research Project Description: Designed conjugated organic and polymeric materials will be prepared and evaluated as the active layer in optoelectronic devices, particularly light emitting displays (LEDs), field effect transistors (FETs) and solar cells. Improved materials with stable blue emission will be developed. Advanced organometallic conjugated polymers will harness the lost triplet energy as phosphorescence in LEDs and so raise potential device efficiency in the vicinity of 100%. Active layer materials in FETs will have improved supramolecular order and processibility to improve charge mobility, while the photovoltaic materials will be developed to show non-dispersive hole transport properties. The patterned deposition of materials for plastic electronics will be developed using a revolutionary deposition technique involving supercritical carbon dioxide.
“The VESKI initiative is just a start. It is an imaginative programme to lure Australians back to Victoria and it is passionate about bringing wealth to Victoria through science and technology.”
Professor Andrew Holmes,
Inaugural VESKI Fellow
Research Project Update: In December 2005, the Holmes group published a paper on polymers in dye-sensitised nanocrystalline solar cells in Chemical Communications.
This followed a paper on the group’s work on new polymer hosts for green emitting phosphorescent complexes in polymer light-emitting diodes in the same publication in October.
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