Topic: Synthesis of Framework Materials by Design

Framework materials, three-dimensional solid-state constructs, represent one of the most fascinating and topical areas of current materials science. The attraction of such systems lays in their functional properties and applications as porous hosts for guest molecular species and as materials with magnetic, electronic and/or optical properties. A key topic of interest within the area of framework materials surrounds the rational design and synthesis of such species, allowing targeting of materials properties providing perhaps one of the most exciting areas of current chemistry.

Session: Synthesis of Framework Materials by Design - Monday 2 July (pm)

Keynote: Molecular tectonics: from simple molecules to complex molecular networks
Wais Hosseini
Universite Louis Pasteur, France

Open-framework molecular materials showing porosity and magnetic ordering
Jaume Veciana*, Daniel Maspoch, Nans Roques, Neus Domingo, Angela Datcu, Klaus Wurst, Daniel Ruiz-Molina, Concepció Rovira and Javier Tejada
Institut de Ciència Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), Spain

Zeolitic organic-inorganic hybrids - a new class of porous metal phosphonate materials
Ian J Shannon*, Gemma H Taylor, Duncan S Hobday, David Drew and Benson M Kariuki
University of Birmingham, UK

Solvent-free synthesis, and some 'design' aspects of metal-organic frameworks
Anne Pichon, Qiang Wei, Ana Lazuen-Garay and Stuart L James*
Queen's University Belfast, UK

Guanidine based hydrogen bonded networks
Antti Ojala, Luca Russo and Kari Rissanen*
University of Jyväskylä , Finland

Ionothermal synthesis - designing new types of nanoporous framework material by changing the synthesis medium
Zhuojia Lin, David S Wragg and Russell E Morris*
University of St Andrews, UK

Engineering functional materials by halogen bonding
Pierangelo Metrangolo*, Franck Meyer, Tullio Pilati and Giuseppe Resnati
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

A family of nanoporous materials based on an amino acid backbone
Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan, Darren Bradshaw, Jean-Noël Rebilly*, Jorge P Barrio, Jamie A Gould, Neil G Berry and Matthew J Rosseinsky
University of Liverpool, UK