The design and study of lemniscular and helicene based molecules

我将应用有机合成技术来形成新的分子，这些分子要么是螺旋形的，要么是八字形的。这些分子是手性的，并提供了有趣的可能性，操纵体相在thecontext的镜像对称性破缺。我们将特别关注研究自组装及其作为多巴胺液晶材料的应用。一些有趣的可能性是开发这些材料，以检查我们是否可以形成奇异的软物质拓扑准粒子的可能性。我们将寻求用一系列成像技术来研究这些材料，包括偏振光学显微镜，共聚焦显微镜，电子显微镜和高-我们设想小尺寸液滴中拓扑缺陷的可再现形成具有可替代的光学性质在显示器和存储器存储应用中具有可能的未来方向。我们将与软物质建模者密切合作，并努力了解这种复杂的打结缺陷是如何在辅助环境中形成的。我们已经开始研究的拓扑缺陷具有从小尺度到大尺度的自组装结构的含义，即粒子物理学到宇宙学，因此可管理的尺度，如软物质化学，为扩展我们在物理科学中的知识提供了理想的机会。

I will be applying organic synthetic techniques to forming novel molecules which have either a helical or figure-ofeightshape. These molecules are chiral and offer intriguing possibilities for the manipulation of bulk phases in thecontext of mirror image symmetry breaking. We will especially look to study self-assembly and their use as dopantsin liquid crystalline materials. Some intriguing possibilities are to develop these materials with a view to examining thepossibility of whether we can form exotic soft-matter topological quasiparticles.We will seek to characterise these materials with a range if imaging techniques including polarised opticalmicroscopy, confocal microscopy, electron microscopy and high-speed dynamical imaging.We envisage the reproducible formation of topological defects in small dimension droplets as having remarkableoptical properties with possible future directions in display and memory storage applications. We will work closelywith soft-matter modellers and work towards an understanding of how such complex knotted defects form in adynamical context. The topological defects we have started to examine have implications of self-assembledstructures from the small to the large scales, i.e. particle physics through to cosmology, and hence manageablescales, such as soft-matter chemistry offer an ideal opportunity to expand our knowledge across scales in thephysical sciences.