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Lecture Title	"Organic Porous Materials through Dynamic Covalent Chemistry"
Date	Friday 17 July 2015 10:00 to 11:30
Lecturer	Wei Zhang (Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Place	Seminar room, 2nd floor, Building 3, Yamate Area
Summary	Purely organic covalently linked porous materials have attracted tremendous research interest due to their unique properties, such as lightweight, intrinsic porosity, high physiochemical stability, and structural tunability. They have been widely used in gas adsorption and separation, heterogeneous catalysis, and a range of other applications. This presentation will focus on the design and synthesis of two types of organic porous materials, shape-persistent molecular cages and polymer frameworks (either crystalline or amorphous), which are prepared through reversible dynamic covalent chemistry (DCvC). The high chemical and thermal stability of these porous materials and their great tunability in both pore volume and surface functionality represent great advantages. The structure-property relationship of these porous materials, particularly their applications toward electrocatalysis and photoresponsive gas adsorption, will also be discussed.
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