Chemistry Seminar with Dr. Dianne Xiao from the University of Washington at 12:00pm
Please join us for Dr. Xiao's seminar, titled "Truncating and Contorting 2D Frameworks to Achieve New Function"
As sources of renewable electricity become increasingly abundant,
new conductive porous architectures that can directly interface with
electrical energy are needed. Conjugated 2D framework materials are
an emerging class of nanoporous conductors with excellent chemical
tunability and high surface areas. In this talk, I will show how we have
used (1) truncation and (2) contortion to alter the underlying form of
these materials and introduce new function. Specifically, I will show
how truncation of conjugated 2D frameworks into discrete
macrocycles introduces solution processability and richly tunable
peripheral chemistry. Finally, I will discuss the development of
strained conjugated ligands with significant contortion and curvature.