Publications related to Molecular logic gate

The role of xanthophylls in the supramolecular organization of the photosynthetic complex LHCII in lipid membranes studied by high-resolution imaging and nanospectroscopy

Giovanni Dietler, Serguei Sekatski, Jiangtao Zhou

The xanthophyll cycle is a regulatory mechanism operating in the photosynthetic apparatus of plants. It consists of the conversion of the xanthophyll pigment violaxanthin to zeaxanthin, and vice versa, in response to light intensity. According to the curre ...

ELSEVIER2020

Spectro-electrochemical toolbox for monitoring and controlling quinone-mediated redox-driven molecular gripping

Jovana Milic, Thomas Schneeberger

The control of molecular systems by electrical charge or light is a prerequisite for their application in nanoelectronics. Such potential has been uniquely exploited in quinone-based resorcin[4]arene cavitands that can act as molecular grippers, reversibly ...

2019

Fixed DNA Molecule Arrays for High-Throughput Single DNA-Protein Interaction Studies

Vytautas Navikas

The DNA Curtains assay is a recently developed experimental platform for protein-DNA interaction studies at the single-molecule level that is based on anchoring and alignment of DNA fragments. The DNA Curtains so far have been made by using chromium barrie ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Host-guest chemistry with water-soluble gold nanoparticle supraspheres

Francesco Stellacci, Benjamin Timothée Nicolas Le Ouay

The uptake of molecular guests, a hallmark of the supramolecular chemistry of cages and containers, has yet to be documented for soluble assemblies of metal nanoparticles. Here we demonstrate that gold nanoparticle-based supraspheres serve as a host for th ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Engineering the self-assembly of diketopyrrolopyrrole-based molecular semiconductors via an aliphatic linker strategy

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Xiaoyun Yu, Andrea Gasperini, Emilie Aude Marie Ripaud, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan

The solid-state self-assembly of molecular semiconductors is a key aspect for controlling the optoelectronic properties of organic electronic materials. Herein, we investigate the use of a flexible linker strategy to control the self-assembly of a solution ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Microfluidic platforms for high-throughput mammalian cell printing, transfection, and dosage-dependent studies

Kristina Pan Woodruff

With the advent of high-throughput and genome-wide screening initiatives, there is a need for improved methods for cell-based assays. Current approaches require expensive equipment, rely on large-scale culturing formats not suited for small or rare sample ...

EPFL2017

Total Synthesis of Fijiolide A via an Atropselective Paracyclophane Formation

Christoph Heinz

The natural product fijiolide A is a secondary metabolite isolated from a marine-derived actinomycete of the genus Nocardiopsis. It displays inhibitory activity against TNF-Î±-induced activation of NFÎºB, an important transcription factor and a potential t ...

EPFL2016

Light absorption in 1D and 2D nanostructured organic semiconductors

Damien Rolland

Organic photovoltaics will be one of the corner stones in solving the increasing world's energy demand issue. For this reason, a better understanding of the detailed mechanisms involved in energy conversion in the employed nanostructured materials is still ...

EPFL2015

Conductance Switching and Many-Valued Logic in Porphyrin Assemblies

Nicola Marzari

We investigate quantum interference in the transport properties of porphyrin-based molecular devices, and are able to develop a minimal but qualitatively accurate model of conductance based on the maximally localized Wannier functions of just the isolated ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Precise Control of Intramolecular Charge-Transport: The Interplay of Distance and Conformational Effects

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Mateusz Barnaba Wielopolski, Lars-Hendrik Mewes

A new series of donor–bridge–acceptor (D–B–A) compounds consisting of π-conjugated oligofluorene (oFL) bridges between a ferrocene (Fc) electron-donor and a fullerene (C60) electron-acceptor have been synthesized. In addition to varying the length of the b ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Integrated computational approaches for spectroscopic studies of molecular systems in the gas phase and in solution: pyrimidine as a test case

Fabio Trani

An integrated computational approach built on quantum mechanical (QM) methods, purposely tailored inter-and intra-molecular force fields and continuum solvent models combined with time-independent and timedependent schemes to account for nuclear motion eff ...

2012

Ion Beam Deposition and STM Analysis of Macromolecules on Solid Surfaces in UHV

Nicha Thontasen

Organic and biological macromolecules have attracted great interest within nanotechnology research due to properties that can be useful in future devices. Interesting functionalities such as optical activity, host-guest binding and molecular recognition ar ...

EPFL2011

Ultrafast charge transfer through p-oligo(phenylene) bridges: effect of nonequilibrium vibrations

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Christophe Bauer, Pascal Comte, Joël Teuscher, Bernard Wenger, Serge Pelet

Electron transfers (ET) between a donor (D) and an acceptor (A) through a molecular bridge (B) are of great importance in biological systems, molecular electronics and molecular based light-energy conversion systems. Here, the back and the forward electron ...

Current Science Assoc // Indian Academy of Sciences2010

Access to long-chain polyketides by double-elongation reactions : the AB and CD spiroacetals of the spongistatins

Christopher Flowers

Due to the spongistatins' fascinating and complex molecular architectures, and their important biological activities, these marine macrolides have been the subject of intensive efforts directed towards their total synthesis. As an attractive alternative to ...

EPFL2010

Surface Molecular Quantification and Photoelectrochemical Characterization of Mixed Organic Dye and Coadsorbent Layers on TiO2 for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Xiaoqing Jiang, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Different molecular layers on TiO2 were prepared by using the p-dimethylaniline triphenylamine based organic dye, D29, together with the coadsorbents decylphosphonic acid (DPA), dineohexyl bis(3,3-dimethylbutyl)phosphinic acid (DINHOP), and chenodeoxycholi ...

American Chemical Society2010

Boronic Acids as Building Blocks for Molecular Nanostructures and Polymeric Materials

Kay Severin

Boronic acids are versatile building blocks for the construction of complex molecular architectures. Using reversible condensation reactions, it is possible to obtain macrocycles, cages, dendritic structures, and rotaxanes, as well as 1-, 2-, and 3-dimensi ...

2009

Growth and characterization of specific self-assembled supramolecular architectures at crystal surfaces

Marta Canas Ventura

In the framework of this thesis self-assembled supramolecular architectures of several molecular species on crystal metal surfaces are characterized. These investigations combine results obtained by means of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), scanning tu ...

EPFL2008

Tuning the self-assembly of lanthanide triple stranded heterobimetallic helicates by ligand design

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Thomas Binderup Jensen

The heterobitopic ligands LAB4 and LAB5 have been designed and synthesised with the ultimate aim of self-assembling dual-function lanthanide complexes containing either a magnetic and a luminescent probe or two luminescent probes emitting at different wave ...

2008

Supramolecular assembly, chirality, and electronic properties of rubrene studied by STM and STS

This thesis presents the first experimental results of a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) investigation of rubrene at the supramolecular, molecular and submolecular level. Based on its semiconducting and fluores ...

EPFL2006