Projects
Fault tolerance in self-assembly models Hasselt University
Molecular self-assembly under 2D lateral nanoconfinement: Capabilities and prospects KU Leuven
Molecular self-assembly is omnipresent. Think about the DNA molecules in your body or soap dissolving fat. However, fundamental knowledge about the early self-assembly stages is limited and hinders controlling the process at will, sought after in numerous fields of applications. To that end, confinement of self-assembly has emerged as a strategy to obtain more insight into the early stages. Our group has developed a two-dimensional ...
Cellulose nanocrystal self-assembly to 1D-structures KU Leuven
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 ...
Self-assembly under nanoconfinement conditions KU Leuven
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 ...
Cellulose nanocrystal self-assembly to 1D-structures KU Leuven
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 ...
Implementation of block copolymer based directed self-assembly for advanced lithography. KU Leuven
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 ...
Self-assembly in colloidal and bacterial systems studied with high resolution microscopy techniques. KU Leuven
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 ...
Modifying graphene by nanostructuring via molecular self-assembly KU Leuven
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 ...
Hierarchical nanostructured materials through nanoparticle self-assembly. KU Leuven
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, we will modify the surface of rod-like ...