Towards Nano-circuits: 2 and 3-Dimensional Carbon-Wired Nano-architectures

虽然澳大利亚在有机过渡金属化学方面具有世界一流的地位，但主族化学的代表性不足，尽管基于这些元素的材料具有巨大的技术重要性。除了基础突破科学的探索外，该项目还将为主组和有机金属化学的5名青年科学家提供培训工具。目标化合物涉及主基团和过渡金属化学领域的本质上独特的结合，以提供基于金属和非金属在分子水平上通过碳线的模块化互连的复杂纳米结构-宏观电路元件的纳米对应物。

Whilst Australia has a world-class profile in organotransition metal chemistry, main-group chemistry is under-represented, despite the enormous technological importance of materials based on these elements. In addition to the fundamental breakthrough science to be explored, the project will provide a training vehicle for 5 young scientists in both main group and organometallic chemistry. The target compounds involve an essentially unique marriage of the fields of main-group and transition metal chemistry to provide complex nano-architectures based on the modular interconnection of metals and non-metals by carbon wires at the molecular level - nanoscopic counterparts of macroscopic circuit components.