Conference on Reticular Chemistry, Paris, France

固态化学目前在旨在创造新材料的新合成工具的开发方面正在经历快速增长。一个这样的例子是通过从两个或多个分子构件组装来合成扩展的固态材料-例如，通过有机多面体配体连接以形成多面体、棒、层和三维扩展结构的无机簇。这一新领域被称为“网状合成”，其中通过适当选择几何形状，可以预先设计合成产物的维度和拓扑结构，以产生具有可预测性质的材料。本次研讨会将探讨如何通过刺激数学，化学和材料科学与工程的相互作用来推进网状化学的新领域，以探索设计和制备具有理想性能的新材料的基本原理。网状化学会议的目标：设计扩展化学结构的原则是将大量的几何知识和可用性数学工具与有机，无机，生物化学和材料研究人员的实验和理论专业知识相结合，以确定以下领域的关键问题和进展：列举数学结构，如最小曲面，结和三维网络;描述分类方案和发明命名法;探索相关的数学属性，如对称性，复杂性和传递性;以推进先验的（自上而下）设计具有所需性能的功能材料（磁性，光学，催化，多孔性）;设计二级建筑单元（SBU），以优化新材料的“自下而上”合成;描述生物结构和混合生物有机和生物无机结构组装的挑战和机遇;应对教育挑战，包括向化学家教授几何和向数学家教授化学。

Solid state chemistry is currently experiencing rapid growth in the development of new synthetic tools aimed at the creation of new materials. One such example is the synthesis of extended solid state materials by assembly from two or more molecular building blocks -- for example, inorganic clusters linked by organic polytopic ligands to form polyhedra, rods, layers and three-dimensional extended structures. This new area is being referred to as "reticular synthesis" where by a suitable choice of geometry the dimensionality and topology of the synthesized product can be predesigned to yield materials with predictable properties. This workshop will explore ways to advance the new area of reticular chemistry by stimulating the interplay of mathematics, chemistry, and materials science and engineering to explore the fundamentals of designing and preparing new materials with desireable properties. The goal of the Conference on Reticular Chemistry: Principles of Designing Extended Chemical Structures is to integrate and order the vast amount of geometrical knowledge and the availability mathematical tools with the experimental and theoretical expertise of organic, inorganic, biochemical, and materials researchers to identify key problems and progress in the following areas: enumerating mathematical structures such as minimal surfaces, knots and three-dimensional networks; describing classification schemes and inventing nomenclature; exploring relevant mathematical properties such as symmetry, complexity, and transitivity; to advance the a priori (top-down) design of functional materials with desired properties (magnetic, optical, catalytic, porosity); designing secondary building units (SBUs) for optimal 'bottom-up-synthesis' of new materials; describe challenges and opportunities for the assembly of biological structures and hybrid bio-organic and bio-inorganic structures; address educational challenges including the teaching of geometry to chemists and chemistry to mathematicians.