Extreme Self-Assembly for Metal-Organic Materials

Abstract

Self-Assembly has been widely successful in designing metal-organic materials such as metal-organic frameworks and metal-organic polyhedra. These materials are becoming new platforms for porous solids in gas adsorption/separation, and heterogeneous catalysis. In this presentation, I would like to show how this self-assembly strategy can be useful in emerging applications such as meta-materials and meta-surfaces. Similar to the methodology commonly used in organic chemistry, sequential assembly strategy is extremely important in metal-organic materials. Further modification often yield surprsing results.