Welcome message from Prof. Enrico Dalcanale
We are pleased to present our new website. The aim is to offer to the public in general and to prospective graduate students/postdocs in particular, a bird’s eye view of the ongoing activity in our group. I hope this website will stimulate your interest in our research activity.
Enrico Dalcanale
Mission of the Supramolecular Sensors and Materials Group (SSMG)
SSMG team interests are focused on the design and preparation
of functional materials, using the self-assembly approach. Over the years
the major themes have been: macrocyclic liquid crystals, self-assembled
monolayers and LB films, metal-directed self-assembly of coordination cages,
supramolecular sensors and adaptive polymers. The group has been involved in
studying metal-directed self-assembly of coordination cages, first in solution
and then on gold and silicon surfaces. More recently the activity has been
extended to the self-assembly of reversible polymeric structures and to molecular
recognition on surfaces.
