Advanced Organometallic Materials: Syntheses and Nonlinear Optical Properties

Developments in photonics necessitate materials with enhanced, tunable, and/or reversibly switchable nonlinear optical properties that can be used to control or process incident light beams. This project will significantly advance the field by targeting organometallic complexes in which metal atoms are bonded to each other or connected by pi-delocalizable bridges as new nonlinear optical materials. The resultant polymeric, oligomeric or dendritic organometallic species will be of interest in the nascent field of organometallic macromolecules, and the project will cement Australia s leadership in cubic nonlinear optical properties of organometallic complexes