Coordination soft materials possessing dynamic nanospaces

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13771
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Organic and hybrid materials
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Furukawa Shuhei 京都大学, 物質－細胞統合システム拠点, 准教授 (90452276)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 金属錯体 / カゴ状物質 / ソフトマテリアル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we aimed to tackle two main goals: the synthesis of supramolecular coordination molecules with dynamic and stable microporosity and the fabrication of soft materials by linking these molecules. We in particular succeeded in the unexpected progress of soft materialization. First, we achieved the synthesis of metal-organic polyhedra (MOP) with stable microporosity, which were unambiguously characterized by gas sorption experiments at the solid-state. Further, these MOPs were liked by supramolecular polymerization with imidazole-type linkers, leading to colloidal particles with a variety of sizes in controlled manner. By regulating thermodynamics and kinetics of supramolecular polymerization, we achieved the fabrication of soft materials as gels based on these MOPs and its permanent porosity was determined by gas sorption experiments.

Free Research Field

錯体化学