Controlled Transfer of Excitation Energy Through Thin Layers

Abstract

Abstract In biological systems the molecules are in a distinct order and entirely new properties are caused by this organization at the molecular level. The synthesis of molecular aggregates of a planned order is an important new task for chemists. The chemist has methods for the synthesis of very complicated molecules but he has no methods for synthesizing aggregates of molecules of a given order or organization, of such systems which we may call organizates. He needs a kind of pincette for picking out single molecules and arranging them in a planned manner. The task of synthesizing organizates may be seen in two aspects: One may try to imitate simple biological structures or one may try to build any planned arrangement of molecules that has useful properties depending on the details of the arrangement of the molecules.