“Materials Nanoarchitectonics Here, There, Everywhere: Looking Back and Leaping Forward”

OMAR AZZARONI; M. LORENA CORTEZ; MATÍAS RAFTI; WALDEMAR MARMISOLLÉ; KATSUHIKO ARIGA

Concepts and Design of Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Royal Society of Chemistry

Año: 2022; p. 546 - 578

The design and elaboration of materials is the essence of technology, and has always been a key issue for the development of our societies and the advancement of mankind. In fact, the paramount relevance of materials is made clear from the naming of ages of civilizations – the stone, iron and bronze ages – with each new era being brought about by a new material. The emerging reality in these first decades of the twenty-first century is that our standards of living and economic and social progress are heavily reliant on more efficiently performing materials with properties superior to those of current – and hence aging – materials. This notion applies to a broad variety of technologies and applications including electronics, drug delivery, cancer diagnostics or alternative energy sources. Over the years, the search for fundamentally new materials with improved functional capabilities has led to a grand challenge: synthetic control at the "supramolecular" level.