%0 Journal Article %A Banerji, Natalie %A Bhosale, Rajesh %A Bollot, Guillaume %A Butterfield, Sara M. %A Fürstenberg, Alexandre %A Gorteau, Virginie %A Hagihara, Shinya %A Hennig, Andreas %A Maity, Santanu %A Mareda, Jiri %A Matile, Stefan %A Mora, Federico %A Perez-Velasco, Alejandro %A Ravikumar, Velayutham %A Kishore, Ravuri S.K. %A Sakai, Naomi %A Tran, Duy-Hien %A Vauthey, Eric %T Artificial tongues and leaves %J Pure and Applied Chemistry %@ 0033-4545 %V 80 %N 8 %P 1873-1882 %D 2008 %K lipid bilayer %K nanoarchitecture %K photosynthesis %K photovoltaics %K scaffolds %K sensors %U http://iupac.org/publications/pac/80/8/1873/ %R 10.1351/pac200880081873 %U http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:8008 %X The objective with synthetic multifunctional nanoarchitecture is to create large suprastructures with interesting functions. For this purpose, lipid bilayer membranes or conducting surfaces have been used as platforms and rigid-rod molecules as shape-persistent scaffolds. Examples for functions obtained by this approach include pores that can act as multicomponent sensors in complex matrices or rigid-rod π-stack architecture for artificial photosynthesis and photovoltaics.