International Research Fellowship Program: New Methods of Programming the Self-Assembly of Stacked Porphyrazine Structures

0107296 Nitschke国际研究员奖励计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行为期3至24个月的研究。该计划的奖项将提供联合研究的机会，并利用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件。该奖项将为Jonathan R.Nitschke博士提供24个月的支持，与Jean-Marie Lehn博士在法国斯特拉斯堡的Louis Pasteur大学合作，开发新的编程方法，对堆叠式卟啉结构的自组装进行编程。这个项目是与美国国家科学基金会数学和物理科学委员会的多学科活动办公室共同资助的。这个项目将涉及到研究新的方法来诱使不同的类似卟啉的卟啉分子组装成堆叠结构。自组装指令将被编码到分子本身，为超分子化学领域的使用提供新的技术。这些堆叠的卟嗪组装体有望在太阳能和化学传感领域得到应用。莱恩于1987年被授予诺贝尔化学奖。他最出名的是他对非共价力在非生物系统中相互作用的研究。他目前研究的一个重点是超分子组装的合理设计。

0107296NitschkeThe International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad.This award will provide twenty-four months of support to Dr. Jonathan R. Nitschke to work with Dr. Jean-Marie Lehn at the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France on new methods of programming the self-assembly of stacked porphyrazine structures. This project is being co-funded with NSF's Math and Physical Sciences Directorate's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities.This project will involve working on new means of coaxing different porphyrin-like porphyrazine molecules to assemble into stacked structures. Self-assembly instructions will be encoded into the molecules themselves, providing new techniques for use in the field of supramolecular chemistry. These stacked porphyrazine assemblies are anticipated to have applications in the areas of solar energy and chemosensing.Dr. Lehn was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1987. He is best known for his investigations of the interplay of non-covalent forces in abiological systems. A focus of his current research is the rational design of supramolecular assemblies.