CFM Lunch Seminar

This is our monthly CFM Seminar and lunch will be provided in the Olin 105 beginning at 12:30 pm, followed by the speaker at 1:00 pm.

Lydia Sosa Vargas, CNRS Research Fellow, who is from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) from Paris, France will be the featured speaker.

 

Lydia Sosa Vargas is a CNRS researcher at the Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry, Sorbonne Université. Originally from 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 organic electronic devices and self-assembly at the nanoscale.

 

TITLE OF SEMINAR: From molecules to functional materials via supramolecular self-assembly

 

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.

In this seminar I will be presenting some examples of our recent work; the design and synthesis of supramolecular π-conjugated assemblies (from 1D to 3D-nanostructured
materials), and their use in organic electronics.