Supramolecular Soft Matter – Applications in Materials and Organic Electronics

Takashi Nakanishi, PhD, is a principal researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. He is a reviewer for more than twenty journals, including Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Langmuir, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry -- A European Journal, Chemistry -- An Asian Journal, Small, and has also written sixty-eight papers and thirty-two reviews or book chapters.

PREFACE ( Dr. Takashi Nakanishi ). 1. SUPRAMOLECULAR OBJECTS TOWARDS MULTI-TASK ORGANIC MATERIALS. Chapter 1. Supramolecular Materialization of Fullerene Assemblies ( Sukumaran Santhosh Babu, Hidehiko Asanuma, Takashi Nakanishi ). Chapter 2. Tuning Amphiphilicity of Building Blocks for Controlled Self-assembly and Dis-assembly: A Way for Fabrication of Functional Supramolecular Materials ( Huaping Xu, Xi Zhang ). Chapter 3. Organic-Inorganic Supramolecular Materials ( Katsuhiko Ariga, Jonathan P. Hill, Qingmin Ji ). 2. STIMULI RESPONSIVE DYE ORGANIZED SOFT MATERIALS. Chapter 4. Functional Materials from Supramolecular Azobenzene Dye Architectures ( Charl F. J. Faul ). Chapter 5. Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Dye Assemblies ( Shiki Yagai ). Chapter 6. Anion Responsive Supramolecular Dye Chemistry ( Hiromitsu Maeda ). 3. DIMENSION CONTROLLED ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS. Chapter 7. Polymeric Frameworks towards Porous Semiconductors ( Jens Weber, Michael Bojdys, Arne Thomas ). Chapter 8. Two-Dimensional Semiconductive p-Electronic Frameworks ( Donglin Jiang, Xuesong Ding, Jia Guo ). Chapter 9. Polymer Friendly Metal-Organic Frameworks ( Takashi Uemura ). 4. RECENT TRENDS OF ORGANIC RADICAL MATERIALS. Chapter 10. Multidimensional Supramolecular Organizations Based on Polychlorotriphenylmethyl Radicals ( Veronica Mugnaini, Marta Mas-Torrent, Imma Ratera, Concepcio Rovira, Jaume Veciana ). Chapter 11. Photoswitching Property of Diarylethenes in Molecular Magnetism and Electronics ( Kenji Matsuda, Kenji Higashiguchi ). 5. ORGANOGELS AND POLYMER ASSEMBLY. Chapter 12. Self-Oscillating Polymer Gels ( Ryo Yoshida ). Chapter 13. Self-Assembly of Conjugated Polymers and their Application to Biosensors ( David Bilby, Jinsang Kim ). 6. SUPRAMOLECULAR LIQUID CRYSTALS. Chapter 14. Advanced Systems of Supramolecular Liquid Crystals ( Takuma Yasuda, Takashi Kato ). Chapter 15. Supramolecular and Dendron Liquid Crystals ( John W. Goodby, Isabel M. Saez ). Chapter 16. Photoresponsive Chiral Liquid Crystals ( Ratheesh K. Vijayaraghavan, Suresh Das ). Chapter 17. Liquid Crystals towards Soft-Organic Semiconductors ( Yo Shimizu ). 7. SUPRAMOLECULAR COMPOSITES BASED ON CARBON NANOTUBES. Chapter 18. CNT/Polymer Composite Materials ( Tsuyohiko Fujigaya, Yasuhiko Tanaka, Naotoshi Nakashima ). Chapter 19. Interaction of Carbon Nanotubes and Small Molecules ( Sampath Srinivasan, Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh ). Chapter 20. The Tuning CNT Devices using Self-assembling Organic and Biological Molecules ( Jeong-O Lee, Ju-Jin Kim ). 8. OPTOELECTRONICS BASED ON SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES. Chapter 21. Mimicking Photosynthesis with Fullerene-Based Systems ( Juan Luis Delgado, Dirk M. Guldi, Nazario Martin ). Chapter 22. Recent Trends of Supramolecular Photovoltaic Systems ( Dario M. Bassani ). FUTURE PERSPECTIVE IN SUPRAMOLECULAR SOFT MATERIALS. Commentary 1. What will be the Rosetta stone for the next-generation supramolecular chemistry? ( Takuzo Aida ). Commentary 2. Supramolecular Chemistry in Material Science ( Dirk G. Kurth, Chemische Technologie der Materialsynthese, Universitat Wurzburg, Germany ).