Projektnummer

0060138

Zusammenfassung

Smart materials will be fabricated by employing confined self-assembly of functional, photoactive molecules. The novel molecular architecture to be developed here for the fabrication of nanomachines with micrometer dimensions will be based on a particular type of crystalline, nanoporous materials, Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). These "Designer Solids" contain pores large enough to allow for photoinduced changes of size and shape of the chromophores. The directed response of the nanomachines will be predicted, analyzed, and finally optimized using accurate theoretical methods. The ass...