Symposium D-2: "Self-Assembled Materials"

Self-assembling processes of designed small molecules, macromolecules, and inorganic matters have been attracting increasing interest in recent years for creation of innovating material systems. These processes provide precise architectures at nano-, meso-, and hierarchical levels with no excess energies and no tedious processing procedures. The resulting structures benefit various unique and new functions in optics, electronics, chemicals and biological applications. It is of no doubt that the self-assembling processes initiate the promising ways for the future materials technologies. In this symposium many contributed papers and several invited papers will be presented for the following topics. Please contact us and get detailed information.

Topics
* Organized Molecular Films (Self-assembled Monolayers, Langmuir-Blodgett films etc.)
* Self-Assembled Materials and Supramolecular Organization of Molecules, Macromolecules, and Inorganic Matters
* Supramolecular Systems
* Nanospace and Mesoporous Materials
* Organic-Inorganic Composite Materials
* Optical, Electronic, Chemical, and Biological Functions
* Others

Invited Speakers
Prof. Makoto Fujita (The University of Tokyo)
"Self-assembly of Molecular Nanosystems through Coordination"
Dr. Shinji Inagaki (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.)
"Self-assemble of Crystalline Mesoporous Organosilicas and the Functionalization with Sulfonic Acid Groups"
Prof. Douglas Gin (University of Colorado)
"Functional, Nanostructured Organic Materials via the Polymerization of Liquid Crystal Assemblies"

Chairpersons
Prof. Takahiro Seki^1,2)
Department of Applied Chemistry II, Nagoya Univeristy
E-mail: tseki@apchem.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Prof. Takashi Kato
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo
E-mail: kato@chiral.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Prof. Takatoshi Kinoshita
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology
E-mail: kinosita@mse.nitech.ac.jp
Prof. Tatsuya Okubo
Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo
E-mail: okubo@chemsys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Prof. Hideyuki Tagaya
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yamagata University
E-mail: tagaya@yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp