Colloquium for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Summer Semester 2023
Pic: National University of Singapore (NUS)
đź“… Tuesday, 18th July, 2 pm c.t.
đź“Ś CPA Conference room, EG.006 (ground floor),, Ernst-Otto-Fischer-StraĂźe 8, Campus Garching
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“Covalent Organic Frameworks – A Molecular Way to Structural Control and Functional Development”
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Prof. Donglin Jiang
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
Abstract:
The continual need for materials with well-defined structures and properties has driven the evolution of methodologies for molecular synthesis, structural control and materials manufacturing. Chemical approaches offer fundamental strategies for the design, synthesis, control and manufacture of small molecules, polymers and systems. However, the use of chemical approaches in the synthesis of polymers to achieve predesigned yet well-defined primary- and high-order structures is associated with long-standing structural formation bottlenecks. In this sense, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a unique class of emerging porous polymers that can be predesigned to achieve well-defined primary- and high-order structures, offering a molecular way to structural control and functional development, showing great potential in applications in different fields. Interestingly, this polymerization deploys covalent bonds to construct the primary-order structures and supramolecular polymerization to generate layered networks. In this Lecture, I will show our journey to this fascinating polymer field from the viewpoints of chemistry and materials science.
Speaker’s Bio:
Donglin Jiang received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 1998 under supervision of Professor Takuzo Aida. He was appointed as assistant professor (1998–2000) at The University of Tokyo, group leader (2000–2005) in the ERATO AIDA Nanospace project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, associate professor (2005–2015) at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, professor (2016–2018) at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and professor (2018–) at the National University of Singapore. He is currently the provost’ chair professor and Fellow of The European Academy of Sciences. From 2018-2022, he is The world’s most highly cited researcher in the field of Chemistry by Clarivate Analytics. He received the Humboldt Research Award (2021), The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work 2016, and The Society of Polymer Science, Japan for Creative Work 2006.
Organization contact: frank.ortmann@tum.de