Our group focuses on better understanding the principles controlling charge, mass and heat transport within polymeric matrices. The main goal is to establish a roadmap towards nano-structured, multifunctional materials with improved ionic conductivity, temperature regulating ability, nano-templating behavior, or nano-shuttling capabilites. Clean energy alternatives (such as fuel cells and solar cells), flexible optoelectronic devices, better energy storage, non-viral gene delivery vectors and “green” buildings are promising areas that will benefit from tailoring the materials properties via a precise control of their structure at the molecular and supramolecular scales. The interdisciplinary nature of this work allows students to acquire experience, not only in organic or polymer synthetic chemistry, but also in a wide variety of characterization techniques routinely used to study the materials they prepare. Furthermore, while striving to control and tailor the properties of these new compounds, they have the opportunity to closely collaborate with their peers from other disciplines working towards the same broad objective.