Manal Omary, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry | Texas Woman's University
Denton, TX, UNITED STATES
An accomplished researcher with a variety of grants related to the defense industry
Biography
Manal Omary's research interests include synthesis and characterization of novel new molecular materials, including metallopolymers and small-molecule transition metal and lanthanide complexes that have the potential for being used in applications such as: Polymer light-emitting diodes, PLEDs, Solar energy conversion (Organic Photovoltaics, OPVs), Probes for biological systems, Optical sensors for environmental pollutants
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Education (2)
University of Maine: Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry
Yarmouk University: B.S., Chemistry
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Research Grants (2)
Young Faculty Award
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
This Research Announcement (RA) solicits ground-breaking single-investigator proposals from junior faculty for research and development in the areas of physical sciences, engineering, materials, mathematics, biology, computing, informatics, and manufacturing of interest to DARPA's Biological Technologies Office (BTO), Defense Sciences Office (DSO) and Microsystems Technology Office (MTO).
Research Enhancement Program (REP)
Texas Woman's University $8,000
2014-09-24
Copper-based Organic Photovoltaics: From Material Design to Device Nanofabrication of Next-generation Organic Solar Cell Technology
Articles (5)
On/off luminescence vapochromic selective sensing of benzene and its methylated derivatives by a trinuclear silver(I) pyrazolate sensor
Chemical Communications
2010 {[3,5-(CF3)2Pz]Ag}3 (1) films exhibit selective/reversible sensing of small-organic-molecule (SAM) vapors, which readily switch-on bright-green (benzene or toluene) or bright-blue (mesitylene) luminescence that switches-off upon vapor removal. Vapors of electron-deficient SAMs or non-aromatic solvents did not attain luminescence switching and were not adsorbed.
Structure and luminescence properties of a well-known macrometallocyclic trinuclear Au(I) complex and its adduct with a perfluorinated fluorophore showing cooperative anisotropic supramolecular
Dalton Transactions
2010 The structure and luminescence properties of a well-known trinuclear Au(I) imidazolate complex are determined for the first time along with its interaction with the organic π acid perfluoronaphthalene in the solid state and solution.
Golden Metallopolymers with an Active T1 State via Coordination of Poly(4-vinyl)pyridine to Pentahalophenyl-Gold(I) Precursors
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2009 Brightly phosphorescent gold-based metallopolymers have been synthesized by reaction of nonluminescent reactants comprised of the commercially available polymer PVP = poly(4-vinylpyridine) and the Au(I) precursors [Au(C6X5)THT] (X = F or Cl; THT = tetrahydrothiophene). The metallopolymer products exhibit remarkable photoluminescence properties including high solid-state quantum yield (up to 0.63 at RT) and coarse- and fine-tuning to multiple phosphorescence bands across the visible spectrum via luminescence thermochromism and site-selective excitation.
Metal Effect on the Supramolecular Structure, Photophysics, and Acid−Base Character of Trinuclear Pyrazolato Coinage Metal Complexes
Inorganic Chemistry
2005 Varying the coinage metal in cyclic trinuclear pyrazolate complexes is found to significantly affect the solid-state packing, photophysics, and acid−base properties. The three isoleptic compounds used in this study are {[3,5-(CF3)2Pz]M}3 with M = Cu, Ag, and Au (i.e., Cu3, Ag3, and Au3, respectively). They form isomorphous crystals and exist as trimers featuring nine-membered M3N6 rings with linear two-coordinate metal sites.
External heavy-atom effect of gold in a supramolecular acid–base π stack
Dalton Transactions
2005 The nucleophilic trinuclear Au(I) ring complex Au3(p-tolN[double bond, length as m-dash]COEt)3, 1, forms a sandwich adduct with the organic Lewis acid octafluoronaphthalene, C10F8. The 1·C10F8 adduct has a supramolecular structure consisting of columnar interleaved 1 ∶ 1 stacks in which the Au3(p-tolN[double bond, length as m-dash]COEt)3 π-base molecules alternate with the octafluoronaphthalene π-acid molecules with distances between the centroid of octafluoronaphthalene to the centroid of 1 of 3.458 and 3.509 Å. The stacking with octafluoronaphthalene completely quenches the blue photoluminescence of Au3(p-tolN[double bond, length as m-dash]COEt)3, which is related to inter-ring Au–Au bonding, and leads to the appearance of a bright yellow emission band observed at room temperature.
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