Dr. J. Greenfield

About us

We are an interdisciplinary research group that uses organic synthesis to create large, stimuli-responsive structures from simple building blocks using chemical self-assembly.

Our current central challenge is to develop controllable, and reliable, strategies to direct the formation of self-assembled structures of varying degrees of complexity. In doing so, new functional assemblies can be realised, and their materials' properties explored.

Contact Information

Dr Jake L. Greenfield
Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC)
Theodor-Boveri-Weg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg, Germany

Phone: +49 931 31-84404

Jake.Greenfield [at] uni-wuerzburg.de

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7650-5414
Google Scholar: Jake L. Greenfield
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Skype: JakeyLG
Twitter: @JakeyLG

Key Research Interests

Frustrated Helical Architectures: Helical structures are increasingly becoming commonplace in the modern technological world, attributed to their chiroptical and mechanical properties as well as their compact structures. Like a spring, helices can be reversibly deformed mechanically, affording emergent properties in the metastable state.

In the Greenfield Group, we are interested in self-assembled helices that can alter their properties under applied stimuli with a general outlook towards optoelectronics and energy storage materials.