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Nanoscale science has known a tremendous growth in importance
over recent years. The main focus of current research is
on understanding, utilising and potentially applying the
enormous richness of phenomena on this scale. However,
looking closely at the present situation, we still encounter
a substantial bottleneck in our attempts at building nanoscale
devices. It is not enough to show that nanoscale assembly
is feasible on the laboratory level, but it also has to
been shown that massively parallel fabrication of nano-devices
on an industrial scale is feasible. Here, chemical methods
of bottom-up construction become important, because only
with these methods are the growth processes of complicated
systems fast enough for an efficient production procedure.
The RADSAS project aims at developing efficient strategies
for parallel, two-dimensional molecular self-assembly on
surfaces, which we consider an indispensable prerequisite
for the technical realization of supra-molecular design and
engineering. It shall combine the specific knowledge existing
in surface science with the most advanced methods of chemical
synthesis to obtain supramolecular structures with unique
electronic and transport properties, tailored to reflect
the desired behaviour in a wide range of technical applications.
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