[Seminar] From molecules to functional materials via supramolecular self-assembly by Dr. Lydia Sosa Vargas, CNRS
Date
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 09:30 to 11:00
Location
Seminar Room L5D23
Description
"From molecules to functional materials via supramolecular self-assembly"
Speaker:
CNRS Research fellow
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Paris, France
Abstract:
Supramolecular self-assembly is a key technique for arranging molecular components across scales, offering traits like self-healing and responsiveness to external stimuli. This method leverages non-covalent interactions to create ordered systems with diverse architectures, enabling efficient nanomaterials engineering. Within our group, we exploit these interactions to develop functional nanostructured materials, specifically for organic electronic applications such as light-emitting diodes, solar cells, solid-state lasers, and more recently graphene functionalization.
A series of examples of our recent work will be presented; from surface-confined, molecular assemblies, to 3D-nanostructured polymer materials.
Short-Bio:
Lydia Sosa Vargas is a CNRS researcher at the Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry, Sorbonne Université. Originallyfrom Mexico, she obtained her PhD from the University of East Anglia in the UK. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan and the Pierre and Marie Curie University (now Sorbonne University) prior to her recruitment at the CNRS.
Her research interests involve the molecular design and synthesis of pi-conjugated materials for applications in organicelectronic devices and self-assembly at the nanoscale.
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