SEMINAR: CMCA Seminar Series: "How does your nanoporous crystal grow?"

The framework structures of nanoporous crystals are varied and complex and the solutions from which the crystals grow a soup of hundreds of pre-nucleation species each competing for supremacy. Yet conditions can normally be found under which it is possible to prepare a pure phase where there is one winner. Just as with "click chemistry" where a reaction outcome is highly predictable based on usually just one parameter, the rules for selection of a nanoporous material must similarly be few and simple.