CRC 1459 - A03: Interfacing self-assembly and multiple stimuli to create adaptive behaviour

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The project explores molecular building blocks that combine two different responsive units and show adaptation at both the molecular and supramolecular level. Using experimental and theoretical methods, we will expand the scope of these concepts to achieve advanced adaptation as well as network and memory effects. We will unravel whether electronic communication between the responsive units is a criterion for molecular adaptation and we will increase the system complexity by interfacing more than two stimuli. We will broaden our understanding to the supramolecular level to achieve adaptive self-assembled structures and to explore memory effects using changes in chirality, aggregate morphology, absorption and emission as readouts.