Anomalous Structural Response in Porous Framework Materials

该项目的目标是理解多孔框架材料的主-客体性质的关键缺失环节，即主体晶格对其外部环境和分子客体的动态响应。通过结合先进的化学，物理和结构测量，该项目预计将提供跨一系列科学和技术环境的材料行为的第一个协调一致的图片，特别关注与工业相关的“真实的世界”条件。这有望为这些材料正在进行的化学设计、配方和工艺工程提供极大的信息，从而加速它们在气体分离、储能和设备组件应用中的发展。

This project targets a key missing link in understanding the host-guest properties of porous framework materials, namely, the dynamic response of host lattices to their external environment and to the inclusion of molecular guests. By combining advanced chemical, physical and structural measurements the project expects to provide the first concerted picture of materials behaviour across an array of scientific and technological settings, with particular focus given to industrially relevant ‘real world’ conditions. This promises to greatly inform the on-going chemical design, formulation and process engineering of these materials, in turn accelerating their development in gas separation, energy storage and device componentry applications.