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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Molecular and supramolecular nanomachines

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 9360-0152/01
Abbreviation MOLNM
Course title Molecular and supramolecular nanomachines
Credits 4
Coordinating department CNT - Nanotechnology Centre
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jonáš Tokarský, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Electronic properties of molecular systems. Basics of molecular spectroscopy, Jablonski diagram, absorption, vibrational relaxation, intrinsic conversion, phosphorescence, fluorescence, optical activity.

2. Conformational changes and stability of molecular structures. Changes of conformation induced photochemically and electrochemically. Interconversion between two conformers - rotation of functional groups. Molecular switches, molecular rotors and molecular brakes. Utilization of azobenzenes as molecular switches. Photochromic behavior of spiropyranes.

3. Functional units based on supramolecular systems. Photo inducible molecular switches based on crown ethers–azobenzenes–alkali metals complexes. Fluorescence of molecular complexes. Electrochemically controlled supramolecular switches. Photo inducible supramolecular switches.
pH-controlled supramolecular switches.

4. Organic-inorganic hybrid nanostructures as a functional groups. Optically active molecules anchored on layered silicates. Changes of spectral characteristics of dye molecules anchored on inorganic substrates. Nanoreactors based on intercalated layered silicates.

Literature

GÓMEZ-LÓPEZ, M. and J.F. STODDART. Chapter 3 – Molecular and supramolecular nanomachines. NALWA, H.S. Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology: Volume 5. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000, pp. 225–275. ISBN 978-0-12-513760-7 .
BENNISTON, A. C. and P. R. MACKIE. Chapter 4 – Functional nanostructures incorporating responsive modules. NALWA, H.S. Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology: Volume 5. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000, pp. 277-331. ISBN 978-0-12-513760-7 .
MULLER, A.W.J. Were the first organisms heat engines? A new model for biogenesis and the early evolution of biological energy conversion. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 1995, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 193-231. DOI: 10.1016/0079-6107(95)00004-7.

Advised literature

DREXLER, K.E. Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. 2nd ed. New York: Anchor Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0385199735 .
WANG, J. Nanomachines: Fundamentals and Applications. 1st ed. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2013. ISBN: 978-3-527-33120-8.
BALZANI, V., A. CREDI and M. VENTURI. Molecular devices and machines. Nano Today. 2007, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 18-25. DOI: 10.1016/S1748-0132(07)70055-5.
SAUVAGE, J.P., J.P. COLLIN, S. DUROT, J. FREI, V. HEITZ, A. SOUR and C. TOCK. From chemical topology to molecular machines. Comptes Rendus Chimie. 2010, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 315-328. DOI: 10.1016/j.crci.2009.10.008.
SEEMAN, N.C. From genes to machines: DNA nanomechanical devices. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 2005, vol. 30, no. 3, pp.119-125. DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2005.01.007.


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