Projects

Self-assembly, where particles cluster together autonomically, is an approach to create new materials for applications, such as electronic devices. However, the control over long-range
ordering of the formed structures needs more research to drive technological advancement. The shape and the range of the ordered structure is dictated by the properties on the particle surface as well as the conditions at which the self-assembly takes ...

Molecular self-assembly of organic building blocks has often been used for fabricating complex functional surfaces. A sizeable part of this discipline consists of understanding the complexity of molecular recognition processes transpiring during the assembly process which occurs at the interface between an organic liquid and a crystalline solid. ln the last two decades, a wide variety of structurally diverse molecular layers have been ...

Self-assembly, where particles cluster together autonomically, is an approach to create new materials for applications, such as electronic devices. However, the control over long-range ordering of the formed structures needs more research to drive technological advancement. The shape and the range of the ordered structure is dictated by the properties on the particle surface as well as the conditions at which the self-assembly takes place. In ...

Self-assembly refers to the process by which colloidal particles or other discrete components, such as viruses or bacteria, spontaneously organize into ordered, macroscopic structures. Essential is that the colloidal building blocks undergo this restructuring process either through direct interactions, such as interparticle forces, or indirectly using a template or an external field. Recent advances have highlighted the similarity between the ...

This research focuses on using chirality as a tool to study different aspects of supramolecular self-assembly of molecular building blocks on the highly ordered pyrolytic graphic (HOPG), at the liquid-solid interface. A well-known class of molecules in the field of supramolecular assembly on surfaces, alkoxylated dehydrobenzo[12]annulene (DBA) derivatives, are selected as the objects of study, as in addition to the vast amount of information ...

Optical lithography technology has been one of the key enablers for Moore’s Law for over four decades, allowing semiconductor devices to shrink down by approximately a factor of two every two years. This has brought astounding benefits to the industry, as transistors become cheaper, more powerful and faster as they grow smaller. However, current technology, 193 nm immersion lithography, has reached its fundamental resolution limit and, as ...

Nature builds very complex, multifunctional systems by assembling simple building blocks in a directed manner compared to which most manmade structures are relatively simple. In a biomimetic approach, we aim to create hierarchical multi-functional one-, two- and three-dimensional structures with controlled long-range order through self-assembly of multifunctional rodlike nanoparticles. To achieve this, ...

Molecular self-assembly has been widely used as tool for the modification and functionalization of surfaces, whereby in many cases pristine surfaces like highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) were used as substrates to study supramolecular self-assembly from solution. Scanning probe techniques enable the study of these molecular layers with sub-molecular resolution. Similar to crystallization in bulk, supramolecular self-assembly is known ...