Theoretical design, synthesis and characterization of novel organic self-assembling materials. / Conception, Synthèse et Caractérisation de Nouveaux Matériaux Auto-Assemblés.

该计划的目标是通过预测的自组装获得几个具有控制形状的新有机簇。然后仔细设计亚基，然后通过分子模型研究它们的自组装。这些团簇是通过弱相互作用——氢键和范德沃尔斯键——结合在一起的。大多数亚基具有C3对称，是由不寻常的氨基酸或顺式几何聚酰胺组成的环状肽。环状肽亚基可以堆叠在一起，形成像螺旋一样具有很强偶极子的线或管，或者根本没有偶极子。另一种具有圆盘形状的亚基可以像石墨一样形成薄片，也可以像巴克敏斯特富勒烯一样形成T、O或I对称的球，可以包裹金属和其他分子物体。这些类型的超分子可以直接应用于许多研究和技术领域，如生物运输、药物输送、传感、非线性光学、电导率、光子学、凝胶和其他新材料、催化等。

The goal of the program is to obtain several new organic clusters having controlled shapes through predicted self-assembly. The subunits are then carefully designed and their self-assembly is then studied by molecular modelling. The clusters are held together by means of weak interactions: H-bonds and van der Walls contacts. Most subunits have C3 symmetry and are either cyclic peptides made from unusual amino acids or polyamides of cis geometry. The cyclic peptides subunits can stack on top of each other to generate wires or tubes having either very strong dipoles like alpha helices or no dipole at all. The other type of subunits having disk shapes can either form sheets like graphite or balls of T, O or I symmetry like buckminsterfullerene, that could encapsulate metals and other molecular objects. Supermolecules of these types could have direct applications in many areas of research and technology such as biological transport, drug delivery, sensing, non-linear optics, conductivity, photonics, gels and other new materials, catalysis, etc.