Initially, the course “Exploiting self-assembly in aqueous solution to design functional device” will briefly address the first principles that are the basis of supramolecular chemistry. Subsequently, with an eye to natural systems, the student will be led to the understanding of self-assembly phenomena to allow a design of supramolecular devices. For this purpose, an overview of the applications related to biotechnology will also be presented (Sensors, Logic gates, On-off switches). Finally, particular attention will be paid to supramolecular stereochemistry, therefore to intrinsic and induced chirality and the phenomena and applications that can be generated such as chiral memory and conformational probes.
The student will know the main non-covalent interactions, and how to exploit them to design a supramolecular systems. The student will learn the instrument used to detect chirality (spectropolarimeter) and will get to know the most recent literature on this field and the current experimental research strategies applied to obtain supramolecular functional devices.
