Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Katsuhiko Ariga has been working on supramolecular chemistry especially related with self-assembly processes, ultrathin films and molecular recognitions. Accomplishments in his researches contribute significantly developments of biomemetic systems as well as physicochemical understanding on interfacial phenomena. Especially, pioneer researches of layer-layer supramolecular assembly have been highly evaluated, and he is also recognized as an authority of supramolecular recognition at the interfaces. Total citation of entire researches exceeded 7000 times. Now, his research team is working on frontier researches for supramolecular materials through entire bottom-up process. Omar Azzaroni is a principal investigator and a professor of physical chemistry at INIFTA – CONICET, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Buenos Ares, Argentina, receiving his PhD in 2004. His postdoctoral studies were carried out at the University of Cambridge, UK, between 2004 and 2006 and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, in 2007. He was then appointed as Max Planck Partner Group leader from 2009 until 2013. Dr. Azzaroni served as Vice Director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquimicas Teóricas y Aplicadas, INIFTA, between 2012 and 2015, and is currently a fellow of CONICET, and head of the Soft Matter Laboratory of INIFTA. He has also been Adjunct Professor of Physical Chemistry at UNLP since 2009. His research interests include nanostructured hybrid interfaces, supra and macromolecular materials science, soft nanotechnology, and nanoarchitectonics.

• 1. Nanoarchitectonics: A Land of Opportunities2. Nitrogen functionalities assisted nanoporous carbon materials for supercapacitor studies3. Membrane nanoarchitectonics: advanced nanoporous membranes for osmotic power generation4. Biointerfacial nanoarchitectonics: layer-by-layer assembly as a versatile technique for the fabrication of highly functional nanocoatings of biological interest5. Charged porphyrins as building blocks of π-electronic ion-pairing assemblies6. Layered structures in soft nanoarchitectonics: towards functional photonic materials7. Metal Nanoarchitectonics: Fabrication of Sophisticated Gold Nanostructures for Functional Plasmonic Devices8. Molecular Imprinting as Key Technology for Smart Nanoarchitectonics9. Self-assembled structures as emerging cellular scaffoldses10. 2D materials-based nanoarchitectonics for metal-ion batteries11. Thin film nanoarchitectonics via Langmuir-Blodgett and layer-by-layer methods12. Langmuir films - a universal method for fabricating organized monolayers from nanomaterials13. MXenes and their applications in sensors14. Composite materials based on mesoporous oxides and noble metal nanoparticles15. Nanoarchitectonics of Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for energy and sensing applications16. Ionic nanoarchitectonics for nanochannel-based biosensing devices17. Molecular, supramolecular, and macromolecular engineering at hybrid mesoporous interfaces: choose your own nanoarchitectonic adventure18. Nanomaterials and catalysis19. Design of supramolecular chemosensor arrays and their applications to optical chips20. 3D graphene fabrication and application for energy storage systems