Chiral Self-Assembly of Chiral and Non-Chiral Molecules

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Project code: PN-III-P3-3.1-PM-RO-CN-2018-0139 (2018-2019)
Project Title Chiral Self-Assembly of Chiral and Non-Chiral Molecules

Type project: Competition bilateral cooperation Romania – China

Project leader: Dr. Liliana CSEH

Project members: Dr. Daniela Haidu Dr. Livia Nicoleta Deveseleanu-Corici Drd. Ildiko Buta Drd. Angela Maria Spirache 

Project Title: Chiral Self-Assembly of Chiral and Non-Chiral Molecules
Project code: PN-III-P3-3.1-PM-RO-CN-2018-0139
Contract no: 19/2018
Project acronym: Chiral-SA
Program 3: European and international cooperation
Type project: Competition bilateral cooperation Romania – China Partner: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University Contracting Unit: UEFISCDI (Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation)
Contracted Unit: Institute of Chemistry Timisoara of Romanian Academy
Period: 18 months (July 2018-December 2019)
Total Value: 41.820 Lei (~8.980 €), (1 EUR = 4.656 RON)
Project leader: Dr. Liliana CSEH
Project members: Dr. Daniela Haidu Dr. Livia Nicoleta Deveseleanu-Corici Drd. Ildiko Buta Drd. Angela Maria Spirache

Project Summary: There have been several exciting discoveries in liquid crystal self-assembly recently, which have the potential for opening new perspectives on spontaneous chirality induction in non-chiral organic compounds and offer to provide a basis for new chiral materials for a range of applications. Rod-like molecules with more than one chain at each end can assemble in cubic and other 3D mesostructures that are highly optically active without the compounds being chiral, i.e. without the need of expensive asymmetric synthesis. In this project the Timisoara (ICT) team will synthesise novel types of nonchiral and chiral luminescent compounds whose self-assembly will be studied by structural and physical methods at both Nanjing (NJU) and ICT. Additionally, the NJU team will perform molecular simulation of the self-assembly to guide the synthesis and explain the experimental findings. The perfect match of expertise by the two leading groups in the field will ensure high added value of this interdisciplinary collaboration. Beside the scientific importance of the findings in the highly topical subject of spontaneous chirality induction by self-assembly, the result will help design new organic diodes that emit circularly polarized light. Such CP-OLEDs will e.g. halve the energy consumption of high-contrast AMOLED displays.
Progress Reports: Stage I: July – December 2018 At this stage, two members of the Romanian project team made a research internship to NJU, China. Value 2018: 11983.86 lei