Creation of photo responsive molecular-scale devices with low energy consumption

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24651139
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Nanomaterials/Nanobioscience
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Hirose Keiji 大阪大学, 基礎工学研究科, 准教授 (10252628)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 有機化学 / １分子科学 / ロタキサン / エネルギー / 合成化学 / ナノ・マイクロ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to create photo responsive molecular-scale devices with low energy consumption, supramolecular systems having rotaxane structures were designed, synthesized, and the properties of those were investigated. Concretely rotaxanes type devices with rotaxane structure specific chirality, control of the chirality by the shuttling motion, and switching of the shuttling dynamics by thermal and photo chemical external stimuli.

Free Research Field

有機化学