Light-Induced chemical modularity: a new frontier in macromolecular design

该项目旨在开发强大的光驱动化学，用于先进高分子材料的模块化构建。预期成果是一个多功能的、基于光的精密大分子合成技术平台，使软物质材料设计和合成取得关键进展，从化学反应的选择性控制和信息编码和仿生光响应大分子到用于3D激光光刻的先进功能性光致抗蚀剂以及自通过光报告结构变换，或者通过光子场在其性质上可重新编程。利用光的力量作为构建先进高分子材料的精密工具，将为澳大利亚从电子到健康的制造业提供技术成果。这包括纳米级的激光驱动3D打印技术，光适应智能可重编程涂层和材料，对光响应的合成蛋白质以及量身定制的单细胞壁龛。

This project aims to develop powerful light-driven chemistries for the modular construction of advanced macromolecular materials. The expected outcome is a versatile, light-based precision macromolecular synthetic technology platform, enabling critical advances in soft matter material design and synthesis, ranging from selectivity control of chemical reactions and information-coded and biomimetic light-responsive macromolecules to advanced functional photoresists for 3D laser lithography as well as materials that self-report structural transformations by light or are reprogrammable in their properties by photonic fields. Harnessing the power of light as a precision tool for the construction of advanced macromolecular materials will provide technology outcomes for Australian manufacturing industries from electronics to health. This includes laser-driven 3D printing technology at the nano-level, light-adaptive smart reprogrammable coatings and materials, synthetic proteins responsive to light as well as tailor-made single cell niches.