Tomorrow’s Chemistry Today: Concepts in Nanoscience, Organic Materials and Environmental Chemistry

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Providing a glimpse into the future, the young scientists contributing here were considered to be the most important for tomorrow’s chemistry and materials science. They present the state of the art in their particular fields of research, with topics ranging from new synthetic pathways and nanotechnology to green chemistry.
Of major interest to organic chemists, materials scientists and biochemists.

Tomorrow’s Chemistry Today: Concepts in Nanoscience, Organic Materials and Environmental Chemistry

Organic Molecular Nanotechnology: Functional Nanofibers from Functionalised p-Quaterphenylenes

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A new bottom-up nanotechnology approach is presented here: It starts with organic synthesis of functionalised materials and includes self-assembled growth of nanofibers, which are proven to be highly functional for future sub-micron optoelectronics. This approach combines organic chemistry (transition metal catalysed cross-coupling reactions) and physical processing and characterisation techniques (high vacuum, organic molecular beam epitaxy, atomic force microscopy, optical spectroscopy and microscopy). Therefore it is of equal interest for chemists and physicists.The organic nanofibers are grown in a self-assembly process to mutually aligned arrays on a muscovite mica substrate. They exhibit outstanding (optical) properties.Functional groups are implemented at the terminal positions of rodlike p-quaterphenylenes to generate new molecular building blocks for tailormade nanofibers. The fluorescence peak emission frequency shifts within the blue and the overall shape of the nanofibers alters depending on the functionalisation. Push-pull functionalised oligomers lead to nanofibers with strong non-linear optical response – they act as frequency doublers.

Organic Molecular Nanotechnology: Functional Nanofibers from Functionalised p-Quaterphenylenes