Water-based nanomaterials: from function to fundamentals

Boris Rybtchinski, Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel

Self-assembled nanoscale systems that are robust yet adaptive and prone to facile fabrication and reversible disassembly are of primary importance for creating multifunctional adaptive nanomaterials. We will present our work on water-based recyclable noncovalent membranes that can be used for size-selective separations of nanoparticles and biomolecules. We will also describe emerging rational design principles for creating highly ordered functional nanoarrays assembled from well-defined molecular units in aqueous media, enabling a general approach towards complex water-based materials