Fred Wudl

Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Chemistry & Biochemistry
Materials

Fred Wudl

Contacts

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510

fax: (805) 893-4120
wudl@chem.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Research Description

Currently we are interested in the optical and electrooptical properties of processable conjugated polymers as well as in the organic chemistry of fullerenes and the design and the preparation of self-mending polymers. A completion of the three primary colors (red, green and blue (RGB)) in conjugated polymeric electrochromics is enough to produce any shade of desired color for plastic displays. Until our first report about a green colored neutral conjugated polymer (CP), researches on CPs as electrochromics have mainly focused on red and blue.

Biography

Fred Wudl received his B.S. in 1964 as well as his Ph.D. in 1967 from UCLA. His Postdoctoral work was done in 1967 - 1968 at Harvard University.


Awards/Honors

  • American Chemical Society Award for Chemistry of Materials, 1996
  • Bayer Lecturer, Cornell University, 1996
  • The "Giulio Natta" Medal, Italian Chemical Society, Rome, Italy, 1994
  • Wheland Medal, University of Chicago, 1994
  • American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1993
  • Arthur D. Little Award, 1993
  • Stouffer Award, University of Southern California, 1993
  • 3M Lecturer, University of British Columbia, 1992
  • Karcher Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, 1992
  • Peter A. Leermakers Lecturer,, 1992
  • William Rauscher Lecturer in Chemistry Award awarded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1992
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1989

Selected Publications

  • Completion of the three primary colours: the final step toward plastic displays, J. Mats. Chem., 15, 2005, 20-22, Sonmez G, Wudl F
  • Closed shell cationic conducting polymers, Abstracts Of Papers Of The American Chemical Society, 227, U162-U162 352-ORGN Part 2., 2004, Chiechi RC, Sonmez G, Wudl F
  • Intercalation and exfoliation routes to nanoscrolled materials, Abstracts of Papers of The American Chemical Society, 227 U1302-U1302 100-INOR Part 1, 2004, Viculis LM, Mack JJ, Huang SC, Huang JX, Hick SM, Ding ZF, Falcao E, Wudl F, Kaner RB
  • Novel reversible ionic-to-covalent transition in a highly conducting TTF derivative, Abstracts Of Papers Of The American Chemical Society, 227, U171-U171 403-ORGN Part 2., 2004, Shen CKF, Duong H, Sonmez G, Wudl F
  • Preparation of nanostructured molybdenum disulfide for nanobattery electrode application, Abstracts of Papers of The American Chemical Society, 227 U1456-U1456 566-INOR Part 1, 2004, Falcao EHL, Viculis LM, Mack JJ, Kwon CW, Kaner RB, Dunn BS, Wudl F
  • Red, green, and blue colors in polymeric electrochromics, Adv. Materials, 16, 2004, Sonmez G, Sonmez HB, Shen CKE, Wudl F
  • Synthesis and properties of highly fluorescent indolizino[3,4,5-ab]isoindoles, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 2004, 16793-16803, Mitsumori T, Bendikov M, Dautel O, Wudl F, Shioya T, Sato H, Sato Y
  • Two for the price of one: An unprecedented, remarkable thermal two-group migration involving a sulfonynamide to nitrile rearrangement: Mechanistic studies of the first N -> C tosyl rearrangement, Abstracts Of Papers Of The American Chemical Society, 227, U147-U147 265-ORGN Part 2, 2004, Bendikov M, Duong HM, Wudl F