Supramolecular Soft Matter (eBook)

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, Concepció 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
Martín).

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,
Universität Würzburg, Germany).