CPOS Seminar: From molecules to functional materials via supramolecular self-assembly

Speaker: Dr. Lydia Sosa Vargas,  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.  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.

Bio:  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.