Materials Nanoarchitectonics: From Integrated Molecular Systems to Advanced Devices

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.