Luminescence in MOF

Luminescence in MOF

Title of the project: Low dimensional properties of coordination polymers and related materials
Name of the VDSP student(s) & image credits: Shiraz Ahmed Siddiqui & Hidetsugu Shiozawa
Project supervised by: Hidetsugu Shiozawa

About me/us: My name is Shiraz Ahmed Siddiqui, PhD candidate at Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna. I am in the final stage of my PhD studies. My PhD supervisor is Dr. Hidetsugu Shiozawa and I am associated with his research group NanoDesign. The topic of my PhD research is related to- Low dimensional properties of coordination polymers and related materials. In this I synthesize single crystals of the material and study its magnetic, optical and electronic properties. I plan to finish my research work and submit the thesis in 2024.

Image: Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous, crystalline structure having large surface area, tunable functionalities that have found tremendous application in gas storage and separation, sequestration, water harvesting, carbon dioxide capture and sensing. We synthesized two crystalline structures HKUST-1 MOF and coordination polymer Cu(BTC).3H2O by adjusting the pH of reaction mixture. Both crystals exhibit photoluminescence in the range of 700–900 cm-1 within the optical gap of the bulk materials.
The presented image shows large single crystal of HKUST-1 MOF and its structure determined by Single crystal X-ray diffraction. I studied and examined the photoluminescence of this crystal and demonstrated that this porous framework can be converted to a different structure which also exhibits photoluminescence.
The article has already been published in Material Advances (I.F.- 5.0) in 2022 (10.1039/D1MA00866H) and has received 9 citations till now (Google scholar).

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