Switching Adsorbate Layers Based on the Platform Concept (B09)

• Subject Area: Organic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation ; Experimental Condensed Matter Physics ; Physical Chemistry of Molecules, Liquids and Interfaces, Biophysical Chemistry
• Term: from 2011 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 13266514

Controlled surface functionalization is one of the prerequisites to achieve function by switching. Towards this end we developed the so-called platform approach in the first two funding periods. Functional molecules/switches mounted upright on platforms form free standing, ordered monolayers on gold surfaces with controlled intermolecular distances. We now extend our method to quartz surfaces and surfaces with multiple vertical functions aiming at light harvesting adlayers, switchable fluorescence, and switchable redox catalytic properties.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 677: Function by Switching
• Applicant Institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Rainer Herges; Professor Dr. Olaf Magnussen