NRP 47 "Supramolecular Functional Materials"
The National Research Programme "Supramolecular Functional Materials" (NRP 47) supported the property- and application-driven design and synthesis of new molecular devices and supramolecular functional materials. These new materials with their tailor-made specific functions and properties will furnish the foundations for a future key-technology.
The multidisciplinary approach of the supramolecular sciences required close co-operation between chemistry and other scientific disciplines. Therefore the NRP strongly encouraged interdisciplinary approaches with potential areas of application and collaboration at national and international level.
Fundamental aspects
- molecular recognition
- supramolecular synthesis
- self organisation, self assembly of supramolecular structures
- theoretical and analytical work correlating architecture and function
- interfacing of molecular elements to the micro and macroscopic world and between each other to realise potentially practical embodiments
- incorporation of supramolecular systems into existing technologies
Applicational aspects
- information storage, transport and processing; molecular imprinting,etching at the molecular level; molecular shuttles, switches, wires
- electron-, photon- and mass-transfer
- chemical sensors
- diagnostic tools
- molecular magnets
Facts & figures
Overall funding
CHF 15'000'000
Period of research
5 years
President of the Steering Committee
Andreas Ludi, Universität Bern
Implementation Officer
Urs Aeberhard, Science Com Services AG, Bern Scientific
Programme co-ordinator
Stefan Husi, SNSF
Call for proposals
April 2000
Publications
Advanced Functional Materials, Special Issue: Swiss National Research Program on Supramolecular Functional Materials, WILEY-VCH, Vol. 16, No. 2, January 2006