| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/H69373/01 |
| Title: |
CRYSTAL TECTONICS:NOVEL ROUTES TO THE ORDERED AGGREGATION AND SELF- ASSEMBLY OF INORGANIC SOLIDS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Heywood, Professor B |
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| Department: |
Chemistry and Applied Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Salford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
09 November 1992 |
Ends: |
08 February 1996 |
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64,691
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Materials Synthesis & Growth |
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This proposal seeks funding to initiate research in a new area of crystal science, crystal tectonics. The project aims to employ the selective host-guest principles of molecular recognition and molecular self-organisation as a basis for the ordering or inorganic particles into highly organised assemblies. In particular, high-affinity ligand-receptor polymerization reactions and antibody-antigen complexation will be used as a vehicle to link nano-dimensional crystals of defined crystallographic habit with a view to constructing ordered aggregates. As such aggregates have the potential to exhibit enhanced properties in a range of technological applications (eg catalysis, magneto-optical data storage, molecular electronics), this new avenue of crystal science has important implications for the improved fabrication of inorganic materials.
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http://www.salford.ac.uk |