Taking Steps towards “Molectronics”. A venture encompassing Nanotechnology and Synthetic Methodology (NANOSYN)

Taking Steps towards "Molectronics”. A venture encompassing Nanotechnology and Synthetic Methodology (NANOSYN)

Abstract

The aim is to investigate electrical transport in (single) elaborate molecular systems, which are interfaced to the macroscopic world by electric leads.

The rule of the technology game always is “smaller, faster, better” and, consequently, it targets the nano-scale which is the level of supramolecular structures.

So, we believe that the ability to design the electronic states of a molecular device using chemical techniques, together with the ability to measure individual molecules, will be important in molecular electronics and in the study of the physics of nanometer-scale systems. As an implication, the project encompasses the interdisciplinary areas of nanoelectronics and synthesis of molecular nanostructures.

Our challenging and creative project will:

• Address major fundamental problems in nanoelectronics, molecular electron transport and magnetism to take molecular nanoelectronics (molectronics) into a realm beyond current silicon-based technology;

• Develop and sustain strong links between expertise for chemical synthetic methodology and physics of nanotechnology.

List of Partners

  • Professor Silvio Decurtins (Project Leader)
    Universität Bern, Switzerland

  • Professor Jan Becher (Principal Investigator)
    University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

  • Professor M. Bryce (Principal Investigator)
    University of Durham, United Kingdom

  • Dr. Dirk M. Guldi (Collaborator)
    University of Erlangen, Germany

  • Professor Martin Nazario (Principal Investigator)
    Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

  • Dr. Lahcène Ouahab (Collaborator)
    Institut de Chimie, Université de Rennes 1, France

  • Professor Christian Schönenberger (Principal Investigator)
    Institute of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

Participating European Agencies