The design and processing of organized hybrid nanostructures

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Over recent years there have been numerous discoveries in the area, of materials fabrication on the nanoscale. Researchers now believe that inspiring functionality can be built into systems made by organizing many molecular building blocks into one unit. The most advanced properties of such assemblies include their ability to repair themselves or adapt to changing conditions. If we are to bring such technology to the public domain. the next challenge is to learn how to process such systems effectively on larger scales. In the present work. we will examine this opportunity using two approaches. Firstly, we will address the processing issue by designing and fabricating tiny silicon chips that use a technique called microfluidics to enable chemical synthesis of nanoscale building blocks to be controlled and run continuously, providing a stream of products. Secondly. we will discover how to use polymers as intelligent scaffolds for capturing and organizing our nanoscale building blocks into sophisticated superstructures which have desirable optical properties.