Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs): Platforms for Multifunctional Materials
Abstract
Discoveries of novel multifunctional materials have played very important roles to the development of science and technologies and thus to the benefit of our daily life. Among the diverse materials, metal-organic framework (MOF) materials are rapidly emerging as a unique type of porous and organic/inorganic hybrid materials, which can be simply self-assembled from their corresponding inorganic metal ions/clusters with organic linkers, and can be straightforwardly characterized by various analytical methods. 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 lecture, the speaker will briefly overview the history of MOF chemistry, and then describe their approaches on pore and function engineering to develop multifunctional MOF materials. They 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, organic ligands, guest molecules and/or ions can be collaboratively assembled and/or encapsulated into their frameworks. So they have realized a series of novel MOF materials as luminescent sensors, ratiometric luminescent thermometers, nonlinear optical materials, two-photon/two-photon pumped lasting materials, and two-photon responsive materials for 3D patterning and data storage. Some representative examples of MOFs and MOF composites for heterogeneous catalysis, membrane separations and proton conduction together will be also briefly presented.
About the speaker
Prof. Chen Banglin received his BS and MS in Chemistry from Zhejiang University in 1985 and 1988. He then started his teaching career at Zhejiang University. He researched at the National University of Singapore in 1995 and earned his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry there in 2000. In 2009, he joined The University of Texas at San Antonio as an Associate Professor and became a Professor of Chemistry in 2011. He is currently the Microsoft President’s Endowed Professor and the Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.
Prof. Chen has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters with over 31,000 times of citations. He is part of the editorial boards for ChemistrySelect, Chinese Chemical Letters, Materials Today Chemistry and Frontiers in Energy Research. Besides, he was the lead guest editor of Crystal Growth & Design, special issue on “Crystal Engineering of Nanoporous Materials for Gas Storage and Separation” (2016-2017). He was also the guest editor of ChemPlusChem, special issue on “Coordination Polymers/MOFs: Structures, Properties and Applications” (2016).
Prof. Chen is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2017). Besides, he was recognized as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (2017), Highly Cited Researcher in Chemistry (2016, 2015, 2014) and the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds (2014).
