Title: Metal-Organic Frameworks: Platform for Multifunctional Materials
Speaker: Prof. Chen Banglin（University of Texas）
Time: 10:00-11:00a.m., Nov. 16th, 2016
Venue: Room 214, Building No. 16, Wushan Campus
Abstract:
Discoveries of novel multifunctional materials have played very important roles to the development of science and technologies and thus to benefit our daily life. Among the diverse materials, MOFs are rapidly emerging as a unique type of porous and organic/inorganic hybrid materials. They exhibit great potentials for a broad range of applications in gas storage, gas separations, enantioselective separations, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical sensing and drug delivery.
In this talk, I will describe our approaches on pore and function engineering to develop multifunctional MOF materials. We have been able to tune and optimize pore spaces, immobilize specific functional groups, and introduce chiral pore environments to target MOF materials for hydrogen, acetylene and methane storage, light hydrocarbon separations, enantioselective recognitions, carbon dioxide capture and separations. The intrinsic optical and photonic properties of metal ions and organic ligands, and guest molecules and/or ions can be collaboratively assembled and/or encapsulated into their frameworks, so we have realized a series of novel MOF materials as luminescent sensors, ratiometric luminescent thermometers, nonlinear optical materials, two- and three-photon pumped lasing materials, and two-photon responsive materials for 3D patterning and data storage.