Publications by authors named "Robby Reynaerts"
Article Synopsis
- The text discusses the benefits of immobilizing stimulus-responsive systems on solid surfaces for better signal control and adaptive behavior, while enhancing the ability to analyze these systems with high sensitivity.
- It highlights challenges in arranging these systems at a nanoscale level, which is vital for connecting molecular behavior to larger applications.
- The authors describe their research on designing and characterizing new photoswitches that self-assemble on solid-liquid interfaces, focusing on techniques that ensure precise orientation and organization of these switches for improved functionality.
Article Synopsis
- - The study focuses on creating specific oligomers of alkyl-bridged naphthalenediimides (NDIs) and examining their structures in different environments, like bulk, solution, and at interfaces.
- - Researchers used a method to link multiple NDI cores with various alkyl-diamines, revealing strong intermolecular interactions through photophysical property analysis.
- - Findings suggest that both the chemical structure and the conditions of crystallization are crucial for achieving orderly nanoscale arrangements, with long unsaturated chains typically resulting in folded structures and saturated chains leading to stretched configurations.
Growth of a self-assembled monolayer decoupled from the substrate: nucleation on-command using buffer layers.
Beilstein J Nanotechnol
September 2020
Structural polymorphism is ubiquitous in physisorbed self-assembled monolayers formed at the solution-solid interface. One of the ways to influence network formation at this interface is to physically decouple the self-assembled monolayer from the underlying substrate thereby removing the influence of the substrate lattice, if any. Here we show a systematic exploration of self-assembly of a typical building block, namely 4-tetradecyloxybenzoic acid at the 1-phenyloctane-graphite interface in the presence and in the absence of a buffer layer formed by a long chain alkane, namely -pentacontane.
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