Director (Nobel Prize 1987)
Prof. Jean-Marie LEHN Professor, University of Strasbourg Institute of Advanced Study (USIAS), Chair of Chemistry of Complex Systems 8 allée Gaspard Monge BP 70028 F-67083 Strasbourg Cedex Assistant: +33 (0)3 68 85 51 44 Phone: +33 (0)3 68 85 51 45 Email: lehn@unistra.fr Lehn Institute of Functional Materials |
Group members
Last Name | First Name | Phone | Research Group | Photo | |
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ANTHEAUME | Cyril | 55135 | antheaume AT unistra.fr | Chimie supramoléculaire | |
BERTRAND | Annia | 55 158 | annia.bertrand AT unistra.fr | Chimie Supramoléculaire | |
CLAUDON | Jacline | 55144 | j.claudon AT unistra.fr | Chimie Supramoléculaire | |
ESTEVE FRANCH | Ferran | 55132 | estevefranch AT unistra.fr | Chimie supramoléculaire | |
HARROWFIELD | Jack | 55165 | harrowfield AT unistra.fr | Chimie Supramoléculaire | |
JUNG | Sebastian | sebastian.jung AT unistra.fr | Chimie supramoléculaire | ||
KAZONE | Wahnyalo | wkazone AT unistra.fr | Chimie Supramoléculaire | ||
KOZIBRODA | Bohdan | 55131 | bohdan.kozibroda AT etu.unistra.fr | Chimie Supramoléculaire | |
LEHN | Jean-Marie | 55145 | lehn AT unistra.fr | Chimie Supramoléculaire | |
RIEU | Tanguy | tanguy.rieu AT etu.unistra.fr | Chimie supramoléculaire | ||
SCHMITT | Jean Louis | 55142 | jlschmitt AT unistra.fr | Chimie Supramoléculaire | |
STADLER | Mihail | 55130 | mstadler AT unistra.fr | Chimie Supramoléculaire |
Research topics
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Photoactive and electroactive cryptates; energy and electron transfer processes.
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Molecular Recognition, Molecular Receptors and Coreceptors: Design, synthesis and properties of macropolycyclic complexing agents binding selectively one or several molecular substrates: metalloreceptors; photoactive receptors; cyclointercalands.
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Anion Coordination Chemistry: Anion cryptates; receptors and coreceptors for anionic substrates; selective complexation of organic, inorganic and biological anions.
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Supramolecular Catalysis: Design and properties of molecular catalysts performing a reaction on bound substrate species; enzyme models; cocatalysis.
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Transport Processes: Design of selective carriers; transport of anions, cations and molecules; thermodynamic and kinetic properties; transport regulation; coupling to chemical potentials (protons, electrons) and to light.
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Selfassembly and Selforganisation: Design of systems generating given supramolecular architectures by molecular recognition directed spontaneous assembly of the components; programmed chemical systems; hydrogen bonding and coordination interactions; selforganisation of organic and inorganic entities; polymolecular assemblies.
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Supramolecular Materials: Recognition materials, supramolecular polymers, liquid crystals, vesicles, inorganic materials.
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Chemionics: Molecular Photonic, Electronic and Ionic Devices: Photoactive and electroactive cryptates; energy and electron transfer processes; light conversion; photo-antenna; ion transfer; molecular and ionic switching and amplifying processes; molecular protonics.
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Semiochemistry: Generation and processing of optical, electronic and ionic chemical signals; ion detection; ion pulses; non-linear optical properties.
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Photochemistry and Energy Storage: photoinduced charge separation systems; photochromes.
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Structural and Dynamic Studies by Multinuclear NMR on supramolecular complexes.
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Bioorganic Chemistry and Biological Applications: Models of biological receptors, of enzymes and of biological transport processes; immunological labelling agents, selective nucleic acid reagents, helical and metallo-nucleic complexes; artificial gene transfer vectors.
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Constitutional Dynamic Chemistry, Molecular and Supramolecular. Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry: Design of virtual combinatorial libraries; application to biological targets and to materials.