Professor Manfred Scheer FRSC
Winner: 2021 RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
Universität Regensburg
For pioneering research on main group and organometallic chemistry.
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It is a big honour and … the result of my long-term successful collaboration with many excellent British researchers …
Self-assembly is a general principle in nature to develop life and provide responses to any changes. Within this, small units are linked together to form bigger aggregates and, by growing, proteins and other huge molecules are formed.
To mimic such biochemical processes on a simple chemical platform, Professor Scheer's group uses five-fold symmetric building blocks to form spherical aggregates via self-assembly processes, which are nano-sized in dimension and able to host guests. While the group has been able to synthesise and characterise huge spherical molecules with the size of small and medium-sized proteins, the question of their usage and functionality is still an open topic to be solved. As a result, the group is trying to combine large spherical molecules, able for host-guest chemistry, with the advantages of 3 dimensional networks.
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