Organic Chemistry

The goal of the Ph.D. thesis will be the study of self-assembly of patterned molecular arrays that belongs to major challenges in nanotechnology and has numerous potential applications for nanofabrication of complex structures and useful devices. The DNA-programmed self-assembly has played a key role in this arena. The project will go beyond this state of the art by displacing the sugar-phosphate backbone in DNA with oligophenyleneethynylenes and the pairing of nucleic bases with donor-acceptor interactions of electronically distinguished units being laterally tethered to the π-conjugated backbone.