报告题目：3D-oriented MOF films and micro-patterns

报告人：Paolo Falcaro(奥地利格拉茨技术大学教授）

报告时间：2025年6月24日（星期二）上午10：30

报告地址：广州国际校区C3-c204会议室

邀请人：黄哲昊教授

邀请单位：前沿软物质学院

报告摘要:

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are promising materials for a variety of applications including sensing, microelectronics, and optics. Despite their exceptional functional properties, protocols for the microfabrication of MOF-based components are still underdeveloped. However, this is a key-enabling process: controlling the geometrical position, shape, and crystal orientation in micropatterns will enable the implementation of MOF materials in technologically relevant devices.

In this presentation, we will discuss recent developments in the field of oriented MOF films and patterns specific attention will be given to those procedures involving the use of ceramics as precursor materials. Protocols for the deposition of 3D-oriented polycrystalline Cu-based MOFs via hetero-epitaxial growth from Cu-based ceramics will be presented. A recent strategy that enables the expansion to photolithography for the microfabrication of 3D-oriented MOF patterns will be examined.

报告人简介：

Prof. Falcaro is a European Research Council Consolidator Awardee and holds a full professorship in Bio-based Technology and Materials at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Graz,Austria. He received his PhD in Materials Engineering in 2006 from a joint program between the Universities of Padova and Bologna, Italy, and subsequently worked as a researcher in applied research at Nanofab in Venice, Italy, until 2009. 

In 2009, he moved to The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Melbourne, Australia, as a post-doc. There, he advanced to a group leader and team leader, supervising an interdisciplinary group focused on the development of porous materials such as Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) particles and coatings. In 2015, he became a guest professor at Osaka Prefecture University, and in 2016, he was awarded an adjunct professorship at the University of Adelaide, Australia. 

Since 2016, Prof. Falcaro has been leading an international research team at TU Graz. His team primarily focuses on two areas: the fabrication of oriented MOF films and patterns with anisotropic properties, and the preparation of MOF-based biocomposites for applications in sensing, biocatalysis,and drug delivery.Additionally, he co-leads amultidisciplinary consortium called “Porous Materials at Work for Sustainability” (PMWS) within TU Graz. From 2024 he is the Head of the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. He has served as an associate editor of the Chemical Engineering Journal and as a guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Material Chemistry A on functional frameworks. He is currently a member of the advisory board of CrystEngComm.