Full program:  Symposium Q

Supramolecular Organic Systems, including smart molecules, conjugated oligomers and (co)polymers, biological macromolecules, etc.., form a well established class of functional materials whose intriguing properties find application in a wide range of electronic devices, from light-emitting to photovoltaic diodes and field-effect transistors.

Scope:
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology are cross-disciplinary areas involving materials and functional systems whose structures and components, due to their nanoscale size, exhibit unusual or enhanced properties. The processing and manipulation of materials on the nanoscale as well as the fabrication of devices with new sustainable approaches are crucial issues towards a technology based on intelligent materials. Nanotechnologies are foreseen to have a pervasive impact on industry, economy and many aspects of society, including our everyday life. This symposium is aimed at providing a Forum where the quickly growing community of scientists and researchers working on functional nanosystems based on organic and (co)polymeric materials, and more in general in nanoscience and nanotechnology may effectively interact and exchange ideas.

A particular emphasis is given to the supramolecular approach since the ability to manipulate the local molecular environment is thus crucial to access fundamentally new classes of organic functional materials with unprecedented properties and performance. In fact, despite the progress of the last ten years in the area of organic semiconductors much remains to be done to achieve control, at the nanoscale, of the local environment of functional macromolecules, both regarding interaction with other molecular units or species, and with the electrodes. The influence of such interactions is wide ranging, affecting properties as diverse as luminescence, electrical transport, as well as chemical and mechanical stability. Accurate control of such interactions is needed to allow optimum exploitation of the properties of molecular materials, not only in today’s most common optoelectronic devices such as LEDs, FETs, and PVDs, but also in emerging applications nanoscale technology.

This symposium will bring together experts in the fields of fundamental physics, chemistry, material science, as well as device engineering. Advancing our knowledge of the fundamental processes which control intermolecular interactions is important to complete our understanding of the solid state of matter, and of macromolecular species in particular. Obtaining such knowledge is also crucial from an applicative point of view, and therefore for society. This is first of all because of the connection with the development of organic electronics, which finds application in several consumer electronics devices. In the longer term, it can be reasonably envisaged that such knowledge will also contribute to a better understanding and exploitation of such interactions for both industrially and therapeutically important applications.

Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:
- Fundamental issues on organic materials properties at the nanoscale
- Design and synthesis of dynamic supramolecular nanostructured materials
- - conjugated (macro)molecules
- Electroactive and photoactive supramolecular architectures
- Self-assembly and self-organization
- Hybrid nanostructured multifunctional architectures
- Molecular mechanics and dynamic simulation of supramolecular arrangements
- Quantum chemical calculations
- Nanofabrication
- Bottom-up nanopatterning
- Molecular magnetism at nanoscale
- Surface-assisted self-assembly
- Nanoscale tools and nanomanipulation
- Scanning Probe Microscopies
- Nanoptics and fast spectroscopy of functional materials
- Optical properties of organic interfaces
- Local properties of spatially confined nano-objects
- Charge injection and transport in hybrid metal
– supramolecular architectures
- Light Emitting Devices (LEDs, LETs, LECs)
- Solar cells
- Nanoelectronics: Organic Thin Film Transistors and supramolecular nanowires
- Supramolecular switches and motors
- Know-how transfer (economical perspectives of nanotechnology)

Invited speakers:
- Jean-Marie Lehn (ISIS-ULP, Strasbourg)
- Klaus Müllen (MPIP, Mainz)
- M.W. Hosseini (ULP, Strasbourg)
- I. McCoulloch (Merck)
- Sir Richard H. Friend (Cambridge)
- Peter Ho (Singapore)
- Heinz von Seggern (Darmstadt)
- Johannes Barth (Muenchen)
- Bo Albinsson (Chalmers University)
- Gijs Wuite (Amsterdam)
- Fabio Biscarini (CNR, Bologna)
- Alan E. Rowan (Nijmegen)
-  Johan Hofkens (Leuven)
- Rachel Mc Kendry (London)
- Alessandro De Vita (London/Trieste)
- Jerome Cornil (Mons)
- Luisa de Cola (Muenster) 

Scientific Advisory Board:
- Harry L. Anderson – Univ. Oxford, U.K.
- Vincenzo Balzani – Univ. Bologna, Italy
- Renato Bozio – Univ. Padua, Italy
- Jean-Luc Brédas – Georgia Tech, USA
- Frans De Schryver – Univ. Leuven, Belgium
- Klaus Kern – MPI Stuttgart, Germany
- Klaus Müllen – MPIP Mainz, Germany
- Roeland J.M. Nolte – Univ. Nijmegen, The Netherlands

The proceedings of this symposium will be published in Advanced Materials (Wiley-VCH)

Sponsors:

SONS II  Self Organised Nanostructures

Symposium organizers:

Giovanni MARLETTA
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche
Università di Catania
Viale A.Doria 6
95125 Catania
Italy
Tel. & Fax: +39 095 33 64 22
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Franco CACIALLI
Department of Physics and Astronomy (CMMP Group) and
London Centre for Nanotechnology University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UK
Tel: +44 20 7679 4467
Fax: +44 20 7679 1360
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Roberto FARIA
Instituto de Fisica de Sao Carlos
Universidade de São Paulo
Av. Trabalhador Sãocarlense
400-C.P.369
13566-590 São Carlos, SP
Brasil
Tel: +55 16 273 9758
Fax: +55 16 271 3365
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Mario RUBEN
Institute of Nanotechnology
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
PF 3640
D-76021 Karlsruhe
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)7 7826781
Fax: +49 (0)7 7826434
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Paolo SAMORI
Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S.)
Université Louis Pasteur
8, allée Gaspard Monge
BP 70028
F-67083 Strasbourg Cedex
France
Tel: +33 (0)3 90245160
Fax: +33 (0)3 90245161
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Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
via Gobetti 101
I-40129 Bologna
Italy
Tel: +39 051 6399829
Fax: +39 051 6399844
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Organizing Committee:

Antonella DI TRAPANI
EUROCORES Programme Coordinator for Materials Science
European Science Foundation
1 quai Lezay-Marnésia
67080 Strasbourg
France
Tel: +33 388767176
Fax: +33 388370532
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Catherine LOBSTEIN
EUROCORES Programme Administrator
European Science Foundation
1 quai Lezay-Marnésia
67080 Strasbourg
France
Tel: +33-3-88767130
Fax: +33 388370532
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