Reactive Coordination Polymers and Supramolecules

通过自组装过程，可以设计和生产大量离散或无限的分子组合。通过对前体的精心设计，这些纳米级的组件将具有化学反应性。在这项研究中开创的新技术将允许设计新的先进材料，如均相多中心催化剂（类似于生物酶），工业上重要的非均相催化剂，纳米级分子筛，分子传感器和开关，或表现出不同寻常的主客体化学的材料。

Large discrete or infinite assemblies of molecules will be designed and produced by self-assembly processes. Through careful design of the precursors, these nano-sized assemblies will be chemically reactive. The new techniques pioneered in this study will allow the design of new advanced materials, such as homogeneous multicentre catalysts (analogous to biological enzymes), industrially important heterogeneous catalysts, nanoscale molecular sieves, molecular sensors and switches, or materials that show unusual host-guest chemistry.