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Organic-inorganic hybrid nanostructures are promising candidates for a new class of materials with properties not observed for individual components. The aim of the project is to develop new approaches for nanostructured system preparation. Particular interest will be devoted to organic supramolecular structures and paramagnetic liquid crystalline compounds, preparation of ligands followed by functionalization of magnetic nanoparticles. Other nanoparticles (ferroelectric, up-converting, etc.) will be considered for mixing with liquid crystalline structures to create new types of hybrid composites. We expect distinct optical, magnetic and dielectric properties, which can be tuned by temperature and concentration changes and changed by external stimuli (magnetic or electric field).
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