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Self-assembly of nanostructured glass metasurfaces via templated fluid instabilities

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Modern devices require the tuning of the size, shape and spatial arrangement of nano-objects and their assemblies with nanometre-scale precision, over large-area and sometimes soft substrates. Such stringent requirements are beyond the reach of conventiona ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

A Rule Synthesis Algorithm for Programmable Stochastic Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules

Alcherio Martinoli, Bahar Haghighat

Programmable self-assembly of modular robots offers promising means for structure formation at different scales. Rule-based approaches have been previously employed for distributed control of stochastic self-assembly processes. The assembly rate in the pro ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Synthesis and Characterization of Coordination Cages Based on Clathrochelate Metalloligands

Giacomo Cecot

The work presented in this thesis focused on the synthesis and characterization of new metalloligands based on iron(II) clathrochelate complexes. Clathrochelates can be functionalized peripherally with donor groups capable of coordinating metal ions. The s ...

EPFL2019

Carbohydrate Self-Assembly at Surfaces: STM Imaging of Sucrose Conformation and Ordering on Cu(100)

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb

Saccharides are ubiquitous biomolecules, but little is known about their interaction with, and assembly at, surfaces. By combining preparative mass spectrometry with scanning tunneling microscopy, we have been able to address the conformation and self-asse ...

2019

Excitonic channels from bio-inspired templated supramolecular assembly of J-aggregate nanowirest

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Supramolecular assemblies with controlled morphology are of paramount importance for energy transport in organic semiconductors. Despite considerable freedom in molecular design, the preparation of dyes that form one dimensional J-aggregates is challenging ...

2019

Molecular nanostructures based on polyfunctional clathrochelate complexes

Suzanne Maria Jansze

This thesis describes the design and synthesis of clathrochelate metalloligands for the construction of molecular nanostructures. The low synthetic effort, versatility and stability of the clathrochelate metalloligands makes them particularly suited to the ...

EPFL2019

Fixed DNA Molecule Arrays for High-Throughput Single DNA-Protein Interaction Studies

Vytautas Navikas

The DNA Curtains assay is a recently developed experimental platform for protein-DNA interaction studies at the single-molecule level that is based on anchoring and alignment of DNA fragments. The DNA Curtains so far have been made by using chromium barrie ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Lightweight physics-based models for the control of fluid-mediated self-assembly of robotic modules

Alcherio Martinoli, Hala Khodr, Bahar Haghighat

Self-assembling robotic systems form a subclass of distributed robotic systems that undertake the fundamental task of structure formation. These systems build desired target structures by putting their constituting robotic modules together in a distributed ...

ELSEVIER2019

Quantifying Guest-Host Dynamics in Supramolecular Assemblies to Analyze Their Robustness

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Eva Eugene Kurisinkal

The most basic function of synthetic microenvironments for tissue engineering is to act as a physical substrate for cell attachment, migration, and proliferation, similar to the natural cell environment. Functionalization of supramolecular materials with g ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Exploiting supramolecular assemblies for filterless ultra-narrowband organic photodetectors with inkjet fabrication capability

Frank Nüesch, Roland Hany, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman, Matthias Diethelm

Narrowband photodetectors are useful for a myriad of applications involving color discrimination as well as biological imaging and machine vision. Prevalent devices use broadband light absorbing materials in conjunction with electric (charge collection nar ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

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