Granted Research Projects

A panel of 15 international experts ranked all 35 submitted full-proposals. In December 2005, the ERA-Chemistry consortium granted the 9 first-ranked proposals (in alphabetical order):

A Modular Approach to Multi-responsive Surfactant/peptide (SP) and Surfactant/peptide/nanoparticle (SPN) Hybrid Materials
A. Taubert (University of Basel, Switzerland), B. Kirchner (University of Bonn, Germany). K. Binnenmans (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium).

Building Reversible Sacrificial Bonds in Synthetic Polymer Assemblies to Understand and Mimic the Interactions Functioning as Molecular Velcro in Natural Fibres
A.-S. Duwez (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), P. Bertocini (Universite de Nantes, France).

Cooperatively operating hierarchically organised materials for spintronics
M. Albrecht (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), G.G. Morgan (University College Dublin, Ireland).

Dynamic Self-Assembly of Proteomorphous Objects
J. Nitschke (Univeriste de Geneve, Switzerland), I. Huc (Institut Europen de Chmie et Biologie, Bordeaux, France)

Hierarchical Self-Assembly Based on Surface-Confined Foldamers: A Bottom-up Approach to Nanopatterning (SurConFold)
S. Hecht (Max Planck Institute fur Kohlenforschung, Mulheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany), J. van Esch (University of Groningen, Netherlands), P. Samori (Universite Louis Pasteur, France).

Molecular Wires Based on Metal-Modified Oligonucleotides
J. Moller (University Dortmund, Germany), F. Zamora Abanades (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), R.K.O Sigel (University of Zurich, Switzerland).

Multifunctionality by Self-Assembly of Hybrid Molecular Materials (MULTI-Fun)
M. Ruben (Research Centre Karlsruhe, Germany), J. R. Galan-Mascaros (University of Valencia, Spain)

Probing Hierarchial Self-Assemblies Relevant to Drug and Vaccine Design by Employing STM
B.A. Hermann (University Munich and Walther-Meissner-Institute, Germany), P. Seeberger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), A. Rubio (Univ del Pais Vasco, Spain).

Programmable Micelles from DNA-Block Copolymers: Hierarchical Assembly of Catalytically Active Nanostructures
G. Roelfes (University of Groningen, Netherlands), A. Hermann (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany).