Abstract

After a short introduction on the interest of solar fuels, the current state of the art and the properties of metal-organic frameworks, the talk will present some of the contribution of the Valencia group to the development of the field for hydrogen generation from water and CO2 reduction. The final part will provide some hints for future development of the field.

An exciting research challenge in supramolecular chemistry is to design, synthesize, and characterize nano-sized architectures with applications in biology, chemistry, and materials science.1 Predicting and designing non-covalently bound supramolecular complexes and assemblies is difficult because of the weakness of the interactions involved, thus the resulting superstructure is often a compromise between the geometrical constraints of the building blocks and the competing weak intermolecular interactions2.

Deux fois par année, la Faculté des sciences accueille la communauté universitaire pour présenter les dernières recrues de son corps professoral. Rejoignez-nous pour en savoir plus sur les recherches de :

Twice a year, the Faculty of Science showcases some of its newest recruits to the research and teaching faculty. Join us to hear about the researches from:

Abstract: Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs) are coordination complexes of paramagnetic metal ions that display slow relaxation of magnetization below their blocking temperature that are currently intensively researched for applications that include memory storage devices.

Special Edition: uOttawa Chemistry Graduate Student Association (CGSA) & Tito Scaiano Fund

Prof. Suzanne C. Bart,* Tyler S. Collins, Ezra Coughlin, and Matthias Zeller