MRW2017



Welcome to Molecular Rotor Workshop 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic

We invite you cordially to attend a Prague Molecular Rotor Workshop that will be held on March 30-31, 2017, at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague). This meeting is dedicated to fundamental research in the field of molecular rotors/motors, with special focus on rotary motion in 2-D and 3-D materials. Plenary lectures will consists of experimental and theoretical contributions from organic, supramolecular, physical, and theoretical chemistry and physics. This workshop was made possible by generous support by the IOCB and by the Czech-French joint project 7AMB MOBILITY. Due to limited capacity of the conference room, all non-registered participants should contact Jiří Kaleta in advance to make a reservation (jiri.kaleta@uochb.cas.cz).

Best regards,

Jiří KALETA and Josef MICHL, co-organizers




SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

THURSDAY - MARCH 30, 2017
9:00 - 9:15    Conference Opening
9:15 - 10:15    Miguel GARCIA-GARIBAY    Amphidynamic Materials as Molecular Machines
10:15 - 11:15    Denis GINDRE    Nonlinear Optical Microscopy of Crystalline Arrays of Molecular Rotors
11:15 - 11:30    Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30    Balint NAFRADI & Péter SZIRMAI    What do We Need for a Good Spin Liquid?
12:30 - 13:30    Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30    Pawel WZIETEK    NMR Relaxation by Dipolar Coupling and Correlated Motion
14:30 - 15:30    Piero SOZZANI    Molecular Rotors in Porous Materials and Control of Their Dynamics by Guest Molecules
15:30 - 16:00    Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00    Jörn MANZ    A Universal Mechanism of the Planar Boron Rotors B11-, B13+, B15+, and B19-: Inner Wheels Rotating in Pseudo-Rotating Outer Bearings
  
FRIDAY - MARCH 31, 2017
9:00 - 10:00    Ben FERINGA    In Control of Rotary and Translational Motion
10:00 - 11:00    Arnaud MARTEL    Toward the Synthesis of a Synthetic Molecular Ratchet
11:00 - 11:15    Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15    Rainer HERGES    Molecular Rotors on Surfaces
12:15 - 13:30    Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30    Jiří KALETA    Regular Arrays of Dipolar Molecular Rotors: Inclusions in TPP
14:30 - 15:30    Charles T. ROGERS    Progress in Making Ferroelectrics from Systems of Dipole Rotor Molecules
15:30 - 15:45    Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:45    Josef MICHL    Regular Arrays of Dipolar Molecular Rotors: Langmuir-Blodgett Films
16:45 - 17:00    Closing Remarks


Program - downloadable pdf file




LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

  • Patrick BATAIL (University of Angers, France)
  • Ben FERINGA (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
  • László FORRÓ (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Miguel GARCIA-GARIBAY (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
  • Denis GINDRE (University of Angers, France)
  • Rainer HERGES (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
  • Jiří KALETA (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR, Czech Republic)
  • Jörn MANZ (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany & Shanxi University, China)
  • Arnaud MARTEL (Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, France)
  • Josef MICHL (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA & Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR, Czech Republic)
  • Balint NAFRADI (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Charles T. ROGERS (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
  • Piero SOZZANI (University of Milan, Italy)
  • Péter SZIRMAI (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Pawel WZIETEK (Université Paris-Sud, France)