A building-block approach for the study of transport and reactions in confined environments: from synthesis to nano-organised devices through controlled assembly

在项目“运输和反应封闭环境研究的积木式方法：从合成到通过控制组装的纳米组织设备”中的合作研究工作是针对以薄膜形式探索分层混合材料。虽然小分子、聚合物和胶体的组装多年来一直是研究的主题，但对预组织分子物体如树枝状聚合物的结合知之甚少。虽然要求相对于合成，树枝状聚合物提供了一个明确的外部和内部，使他们有吸引力的纳米容器或纳米反应器。如果这种材料与其他材料共同组装，则应该期望得到的混合结构将显示出由所有组件的受控空间布置产生的附加功能。在本项目中，我们建议合成各种各样的树枝状大分子的积木，组装它们在一个控制的方式，表征所得到的纳米组织系统和研究运输和反应在这样的设备中的一些模型的情况下。

The collaborative research effort in the project "A building-block approach for the study of transport and in reactions confined environments: from synthesis to nano-organised devices through controlled assembly" is directed towards the exploration of hierarchic hybrid materials in the form of ultrathin films. While the assembly of small molucules, polymers and colloids has been a topic for research since several years, little is known about the incorporation of preorganized molecular objects such as dendrimers. While demanding with respect to synthesis, dendrimers offer a well defined exterior and interior that makes them attractive as nanocontainers or nanoreactors. If such materials are co-assembled with others, one should expect that the resulting hybrid structures will show additional functionality that arises form the controlled spatial arrangement of all components. In the present project we propose to synthesise a large variety of dendrimer building blocks, to assemble them in a controlled way, to characterize the resulting nano-organized systems and to study transport and reactions in such devices for some model cases.