Initial Hy3M Meeting
Hotel Aequa
Vico Equense, nr Naples
Italy
Feb 2 to Feb 5 2006

Program of Event

Thursday February 2

- 20:00 Dinner at the Hotel

Friday February 3

- 9:45 Get together and a few words

- 10:00 Maria S. Mudadu,* L. Zalewski, D. C. Jagesar, A. M. Brouwer: A Fluorescent Photoresponsive Rotaxane Based on The Perylene Chromophore

- 10:25 Sergey Yeremenko: Structural dynamics of rotaxanes studied by femtosecond infrared spectroscopy

- 10:50 Pavol Bodis: Probing the structure of rotaxanes using time-resolved IR spectroscopies

- Short tea/coffee break; nothing formally organized

- 11:30 Francois Kajzar: Nonlinear index of refraction in rotaxanes. Possibilities in all optical switching application

- 11:55 Christel Leandri: IR characterisation of rotaxanes and their constituent parts adsorbed on Au(111)

- 12:25 Anouk Rijs: Conformational dynamics of rotaxanes: gas-phase IR spectroscopy

- Buffet

- 15:00 J. Kuijt,* S. Mendoza, J. Cheen-Mei Leigh, P. Rudolf, D.A. Leigh, A.M. Brouwer, W.J. Buma: Selectivity of photo-induced rotaxane cis-trans isomerisation and fluorescence study of perylene bisimide rotaxane monolayers

- 15:25 Phillip Nash: To be announced

- 15:35 Monika Lubomska: Rotaxane functionalized acid-terminated self-assembled siloxane monolayers on non-conducting surfaces - XPS, AFM and TCSPC

- 16:05 Massimilano Cavallini and Rajendra Kshirsagar: Patterning on Rotaxane thin films. Techniques and characterization

- Short tea/coffee break; nothing formally organized

- 17:00 Sandra Mendoza: Exploiting Mechanical Motion of Rotaxanes on Surfaces - Characterization and Applications

- 17:30 Francesca Toschi: Knotted and Unknotted Microcin J25: A Molecular Dynamics Study

- 18:00 Jose Canova: New rotaxanes and shuttles

- 18:30 Stefania Rapino: Adsorption of fumaramide [2]rotaxane and its component on Au(111): A molecular dynamics study

- 20:00 Social Dinner at the “Gigino - L’Università della Pizza”. Pizza Extravaganza: All the Pizza you can eat in 4 different styles and more!! Please, register.

Saturday February 4

- 9:40 Diego Gonzalez: Towards magnetic rotaxanes and shuttles

- 10:10 Euan Kay: Demons and Trapdoors

- 10:40 Evangelos Bakalis: Brownian Motion and Nanomachines

- Short tea/coffee break; nothing formally organized

- 11:20 Aurelio Mateo Alonso: Approaches to rotaxanated photoactive couples for conversion of light into energy

- 11:45 Giulia Fioravanti: Molecular shuttling through reversible electron transfer: latest news

- 12:10 Bouchta Sahraoui: Third and second order nonlinear optical properties of some specific and highly conjugated compounds

- 12:40 Ileana Rau: To be announced

- Buffet

- 15:00 EMMMA principal investigators meeting

- 16:30 Hy3M principal investigators meeting

Sunday February 5

- Departure after breakfast

List of participants

1. Aurelio Mateo Alonso
2. Evangelos Bakalis
3. Pavoll Bodis
4. Fred Brouwer
5. Wybren Jan Buma
6. Jose Canovas
7. Massimiliano Cavallini
8. Giulia Fioravanti
9. Stephen Francis
10. Diego Gonzalez
11. Francois Kajzar
12. Euan Kay
13. Rajena Kshirsagar
14. Koos Kuijt
15. Christel Leandri
16. David A. Leigh
17. Ton Loontjens
18. Monika Lubomska
19. Francesca Lugli
20. Sana Mendoza
21. Tora Mudadu
22. Phillip Nash
23. Stefania Rapino
24. Ileana Rau
25. Neville Richardson
26. Anouk Rijs
27. Petra Rudolf
28. Nadja Saendig
29. Bouchta Sahraoui
30. Francesca Toschi
31. Sergey Yeremenko
32. Francesco Zerbetto