TITLE: Metal–organic frameworks as a new paradigm in materials science: from molecular sponges to quantum materials
AUTHOR: Javier Pérez Carvajal, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid
WHEN: March, 19 - 12PM
WHERE: Salón de Actos, ICMM-CSIC
ABSTRACT: In the 21st century, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have established themselves as one of the most versatile and rationally designable platforms in materials science. These crystalline hybrid materials raised by the combination of metal atoms or clusters coordinated by organic ligands are commonly widely known by its record-breaking porosity, unprecedent tunability and high performance.
Originally, MOF was designed and developed as molecular sponges, where pore wall, pore volume and window size were deliberately adjusted to selectively screen organic molecules, metals and gases. Over more than twenty-five years of development, reticular chemistry has enabled, among other advances, the exploration of “breathing” MOFs and the emergence of a new family of porous solids known as covalent organic frameworks (COFs). Now-a-days we are currently opening the so-called 4th generation of MOF, where phenomena associated with quantum materials, such as magnetism or optoelectronics, are combined with the unconventional degrees of freedom and atomistic control that these materials allow.
