Supramolecular chemistry, technological

Due to their unique electronic and chemical properties fullerenes have a tremendous potential as building blocks for molecular engineering, new molecular materials and supramolecular chemistry [54, 133], Many examples of fullerene derivatives (Section 14.1), which are promising candidates for nanotechnological or medical applications, have been synthesized already and even more exciting developments are expected. A detailed description of the potential of fullerene derivatives for technological applications would require an extra monograph. Since this book focuses on the chemical properties and the synthetic potential of fullerenes only a few concepts for fullerene based materials will be briefly presented. 

Brzdzka, Z. In Supramolecular Technology Reinhoudt, D. N., Ed. Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry 10 Elsevier Science Oxford, UK, 1996, Chapter 8, pp. 187-212. 

Another aspect of future applications of supramolecular chemistry, as opposed to classical organic chemistry, is that it opens the possibility for much cleaner technological processes on the one hand, and provides means for the removal of toxic wastes from the environment on the other (see Section 6.3.4)... 

Reviews, 1998, 98, (5) covers several aspects of CDs chemistry while the books listed below mainly present their applications (b) Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry, v. 3, J. Szejtli, Ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Elsevier, Oxford, 1996 J. Szejtli, Cyclodextrin Technology, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1988 (c) Cyclodextrins and Their Industrial Uses, D. Duchene, Ed., Edition du Sante, Paris, France, 1987 New Trends in Cyclodextrins and Derivatives, D. Duchene, Ed., Edition du Sante, Paris, France. 1991 (d) W. Saenger, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 1980, 19, 344 W. Saenger, in Inclusion Compounds, J. T. Atwood. J. E. D. Davies, D. D. MacNicol, Eds., v. 2, Academic Press. London, 1984, p. 231 K. Harata, ibid., v. 5, 1991, p. 311. 

On the basis ofthe present achievements in supramolecular chemistry, some trends in its future development can be foreseen. The prospects for supramolecular chemistry are bright. Situated between chemistry, physics, biology, and technology, it should enhance our understanding of the operation of... 

Department of Supramolecular Chemistry and Technology, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology and Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente,... 

David N. Reinhoudt is scientific director of the Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry and Technology, MESA Research Institute at the University of Twente in The Netherlands. His research is focused on supramolecular chemistry and technology including nanofabrication, molecular recognition, and non-covalent combinatorial synthesis [23, 24],... 

Development of real bottom-up molecular technology as well as nanotechnology through supramolecular chemistry. 

The role of supramolecular chemistry in materials is perhaps expressed most impressively in liquid crystals, in which slight variations of chiral content can lead to dramatic influences in the properties of the mesophases. The helical sense of these mesophases is determined not only by intrinsically chiral mesogens but also by the use of dopants which more often than not interact with achiral host LCs to generate chiral phases (Fig. 7). These phenomena are important both scientifically and technologically, most notably for the chiral smectic and cholesteric liquid crystal phases [68-71]. These materials—as small molecules and as polymers [72,73]—are useful because their order... 

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