Molecular Photonic Materials - From Design to Assembly and Functions

Abstract

Recent works in our laboratory have shown that novel photonic materials could be assembled through the use of various organic and metal-ligand chromophoric building blocks. In this presentation, various design and synthetic strategies together with the successful isolation of new classes of molecular materials will be described. A number of these compounds have been shown to display rich chromophoric and luminescence behaviour. The chromophoric and luminescence properties have been studied and their spectroscopic origins elucidated. Some of these compounds have also been shown to undergo supramolecular assembly to give a variety of nanostructures and morphologies. By understanding the spectroscopic origin and the structure-property relationships, the characteristics of these compounds could be fi ne-tuned for specifi c applications and functions through rational design and assembly strategies based on various coordination motifs and supramolecular non-covalent interactions. These compounds may fi nd potential applications and functions as organic photonic materials.