Interfacing self-assembly and multiple stimuli to create adaptive behaviour (A03)

• Subject Area: Organic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation ; Physical Chemistry of Molecules, Liquids and Interfaces, Biophysical Chemistry ; Theoretical Chemistry: Molecules, Materials, Surfaces
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 433682494

The project explores molecular building blocks that combine two different responsive units and show adaptation at both the molecular and supramolecular level. Using experimental and theoretical methods, we will expand the scope of these concepts to achieve advanced adaptation as well as network and memory effects. We will unravel whether electronic communication between the responsive units is a criterion for molecular adaptation and we will increase the system complexity by interfacing more than two stimuli. We will broaden our understanding to the supramolecular level to achieve adaptive self-assembled structures and to explore memory effects using changes in chirality, aggregate morphology, absorption and emission as readouts.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1459: Intelligent Matter – From responsive to adaptive nanosystems
• Applicant Institution: Universität Münster
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Gustavo Fernandez-Huertas; Professor Dr. Michael Ryan Hansen; Professor Dr. Johannes Neugebauer