Functional Materials from Weakly-Structured Self-Assembly Fluids

这个项目试图了解简单分子的混合物如何形成复杂的结构液体。这种混合物在自然界和工业环境中广泛存在。通过使用一种将新的高分辨率实验技术与计算机模拟相结合的方法，预计将获得这些液体中分子排列的详细图像，从而首次了解组成、结构和性质之间的关系。对液体中分子排列的新理解可能被用来设计用于化学合成和催化的新溶剂，新的食品、个人护理和药物配方，以及在外部刺激下改变其性质的新型智能材料。

This project seeks to understand how mixtures of simple molecules can form complex structured liquids. Such mixtures occur widely both in nature and industrial settings. By using an approach combining new, high-resolution experimental techniques with computer modelling, it is expected that a detailed picture of molecular arrangements in these liquids will be obtained, allowing the relationship between composition, structure and properties to be understood for the first time. The new understanding of molecular arrangements within liquids may be used to design new solvents for chemical synthesis and catalysis, new food, personal care and pharmaceutical formulations, and new, smart materials that change their properties under external stimulus.