Seminar by Dr. Sanjog S. Nagarkar(Faculty Candidate), AIST - Kyoto University on "Coordination Polymers: A New Class of Designer Liquid and Glass Former Material"

24 Sep 2019
Seminar Room #350
Talk title : "Coordination Polymers: A New Class of Designer Liquid and Glass Former Material"
Abstract
Glasses are well known for highly dynamic and isotropic structure and are heavily employed in strikingly diverse applications such as communications, display technologies, food processing and preservation of life under extreme conditions. However, we are largely unable to accurately design amorphous ‘structure’ with precisely defined properties, which places severe constraints upon possibilities of advanced programmable glasses. Coordination Polymers (CPs) are crystalline metal-ligand structures, formed from highly ordered arrays of metal nodes connected by organic ligands are well known for ‘designable’ architecture.1Very recent advent of melting phenomenon in CPs and quenching of the resultant liquid to form glass retaining similar metal–ligand coordination bonding motifs to their crystalline counterparts, has opened a new avenue for designer glass research.2 In this seminar, new families of non-crystalline CP materials, called CP-glasses and CP-liquids will be introduced. Utilization of chemical diversity and designability of the CP framework chemistry as a tool to modulate melting and glass transition will be discussed.3,4 Applications of CP glasses in the area of energy will be presented.5 Finally, I will provide a perspective on the future of the non-crystalline domain of coordination polymers.