EUROPEAN CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION ON ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PROCESSES - EUROMAT 2021

This talk addresses some of my group’s research highlights on MOFs and other functional materials, whereby we take a curiosity-driven approach to structure and derive novel applications for MOF materials. I will discuss coordination modulation of MOFs to tune crystal morphology to produce micro and nanoparticles as well as strategies to produce MOF grass, microflower and micro-mushroom structures for imparting omniphobicity to a surface. Fabrication of complex microstructures for surface functionalization often requires lithographic techniques and specialized equipment. By exploiting physicochemical interactions at air/liquid/solid interfaces, in combination with simple processing methods and bench-top techniques, we can create typically difficult-to-access microstructures, and also dynamically control MOF orientation in fluid matrices and create aligned MOF composites. Through this work, we also intend to address methods to structure MOF materials across multiple length scales.