SONS - Liquid Crystals Nano-particles

液晶（LC）是现代最典型的自组织分子材料。它们可以在电，磁和机械领域重新定向的容易性导致了过多的应用，包括显示器，传感器和光调制器等。在这个项目中，我们提出了一种创新的方法，将新建立的纳米结构领域与液晶相结合。因此，我们提出了液晶介晶材料的合成，分析，表征和物理化学研究绑定到各种化学类型的中心支架，以得到液晶纳米粒子。与现有材料相比，纳米结构的LC可以将联合收割机自组织与形成二级和三级结构的能力相结合，其结构层次类似于蛋白质。此外，超和超分子LC可以表现出各种物理性质，这使得它们在纳米科学，材料和生物学领域的应用具有吸引力。预期这种令人兴奋的发展，我们打算利用独特的自组织能力的LC在自下而上的方法来创建有序阵列的纳米粒子，而不是目前使用的，但自我限制，自上而下的方法。通过这种方法，我们将能够制备具有特定内置功能的分层混合结构的液晶纳米颗粒。 拟议CRP的研究与SONS计划的几个主题有关：纳米结构材料，1-，2-和3-维纳米物体的合成，分级自组装，理论模型和模拟，分子和超分子电子学，自组装和自组装纳米磁体的光电子学特性。

Liquid crystals (LCs) are the quintessential, self-organising, molecular materials of the modern era. The ease with which they can be reoriented in electrical, magnetic and mechanical fields has led to a plethora of applications, including displays, sensors, and light-modulators etc. In this project we propose an innovative approach towards combining the newly established field of nano-structuring with that of liquid crystals. Thus we propose the synthesis, analysis, characterization and physico-chemical studies of liquid crystal mesogenic materials bound to central scaffolds of various chemical types, in order to give liquid crystal nano-particles. In contrast to existing materials, nano-structured LCs can combine self-organisation with the ability to form secondary and tertiary structures, in a structural hierarchy similar to that found for proteins. Furthermore, superand supra-molecular LCs can exhibit a variety of physical properties which make them attractive for applications in the fields of nano-science, materials and biology. Anticipating such exciting developments, we intend to utilise the unique self-organising abilities of LCs in a bottom-up approach to the creation of ordered arrays of nano-particles, rather than the currently used, but self-limiting, top-down methodologies. In taking this approach, we will be able to prepare liquid-crystalline nano-particles with hierarchical hybrid structures with specific built-in functionality. The studies of the proposed CRP are relevant to several themes of the SONS programme: Nanostructured materials, Synthesis of 1-, 2- and 3-dimensional nano-objects, Hierarchical self-assembly, Theoretical models and simulations, Molecular and supramolecular electronics, Opto-electronics properties of self-assemblies and Self-assembled nanomagnets.