Structure Elucidation Of Shear Oriented Ionic Self-Assembled Materials (SISAM)

自组织是一个呈现纳米级结构的概念。除非施加附加场以相互对准结构并抑制晶界，否则结构的形成往往只是局部的。在这项建议中，提出了一种多学科的方法来研究通过离子自组装(ISA)路线合成的高度有序的自组织纳米结构的宏观剪切排列。这种合成路线提供了将各种功能分子组织成纳米结构的可能性。动态流变学测量被应用于深入了解取向机制。原位和非原位小角X射线散射将被用来阐明这种排列系统的精细结构细节。这三个小组(各自在物理、聚合物物理和胶体化学方面的背景)在过去几年里一直活跃在自组织纳米结构领域，并展示了一支拥有以超分子材料为中心的各种技能和专业知识的研究小组。这项合作研究的目的是将这些技能结合起来，从分子水平进一步深入了解纳米结构材料在整个自组织过程中有用的宏观性质的建立。

Self-organization is a concept to render nanoscale structures. The structure formation tends to be local only, unless additional fields are applied to mutually align the structures and to suppress grain boundaries. In this proposal a multidisciplinary approach is presented to investigate the macroscopic shear alignment of highly ordered self-organised nano-structures synthesized via the ionic self-assembly (ISA) route. This synthesis route provides the possibility to organise a variety of functional molecules into nano-structures. Dynamic rheooptical measurements are applied to gain insight about the orientation mechanisms. In-situ and ex-situ Small Angle X-ray scattering will be applied to elucidate fine structural details of such aligned systems. The three groups (with their respective backgrounds in physics, polymer physics and colloid chemistry) have been active in the field of self-organising nano-structures over the last few years and present a research team with a variety of skills and expertise centred on supramolecular materials. It is the aim of this collaborative research effort to combine these skills to obtain further insight into the build-up of useful macroscopic properties of nanostructured materials throughout the self-organisation process from the molecular level.