Principal Investigator Mircea Dinca
Owing to their highly crystalline nature, metal-organic frameworks (MOFS) and covalent-organic frameworks (COFs) can function as perfect scaffolds for controlling the collective properties of electronically non-trivial organic molecules or metal clusters. We aim to exploit the unique structural features of MOFs and COFs to obtain molecular constructs that exhibit collective electronic properties that are otherwise difficult to engineer in molecular solids. We are particularly interested in using topological principles to control the aggregation sequence of molecular chromophores, with potential applications in solar energy conversion, light harvesting constructs, and microporous magnets.