| 초록 |
Soft matter, such as gels, liquid crystals, polymer/biopolymers, and membranes, are ubiquitous throughout nature and have many important industrial applications. The most familiar are plastics, paints, foods, and display technologies. A key feature of these systems is their complex self-organization that is generally held together through weak intermolecular forces such as hydrogen bonds, pi-pi stacking interactions, or through the hydrophobic effect. In this presentation, I will discuss how we used these same driving forces to both develop new designs and exploit existing structures for realizing unique supramolecular nanomaterials. Features of our systems include stimuli-responsive behavior, tunable structures, reversible phase transition, controllable shape changes, chemical sensing, as well as actuation. Applications of this work are expected in a range of areas including separation and detection among others. In addition, I will highlight some of our recent advances in moving past traditional self-assembled systems and into guided assembly approaches for the development of an even wider variety of new soft matter composites. |
