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Smart materials will be fabricated by employing confined self-assembly of functional, photoactive molecules. The novel molecular architecture to be developed here for the fabrication of nanomachines with micrometer dimensions will be based on a particular type of crystalline, nanoporous materials, Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). These "Designer Solids" contain pores large enough to allow for photoinduced changes of size and shape of the chromophores. The directed response of the nanomachines will be predicted, analyzed, and finally optimized using accurate theoretical methods. The assembly of the MOFs from metal-containing nodes and organic linkers, will not be carried out using conventional solvothermal synthesis, but via a novel, liquid-phase (quasi-) epitaxy process. The platform for the fabrication of nanomachines to be developed will be used to realize at least three milestones: photon-driven molecular pumps, conveyor belts for nano- and micrometer-sized particles (and droplets), and a millimeter-sized vehicle which can be driven by illumination with light pulses of different colors.

• Priv.-Doz. Dr. Lars Heinke

  Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  (KIT)
  Institut für Funktionelle Grenzflächen (IFG)
  Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
  

• Prof. Dr. Christof Wöll

  Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  (KIT)
  Physikalische Chemie
  Institut für Funktionelle Grenzflächen
  Geb. 330
  Karlsruhe
  

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Bräse

  Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  (KIT)
  Fakultät für Chemie und Biowissenschaften
  Institut für Organische Chemie
  Karlsruhe
  

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Heine

  Technische Universität Dresden
  Fakultät für Chemie und Lebensmittelchemie
  Theoretische Chemie
  Dresden