Conference Agenda

Session
MS-94: Organic minerals, metal-organic frameworks, and metal-oxygen clusters: the emergent interface of geochemistry and crystal engineering
Time:
Saturday, 21/Aug/2021:
10:20am - 12:45pm

Session Chair: Igor Huskić
Session Chair: Tomoji Ozeki
Location: Club D

50 1st floor

Invited: Helen Maynard-Casely (Australia), Ulrich Kortz (Germany)


Session Abstract

In recent years, discoveries of naturally occurring species with properties and structures similar to those of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), polyoxometallates (POMs) and others have challenged the view of the latter as purely synthetic, man-made materials. Moreover, the application of  geomimetic synthetic methods such as accelerated ageing or pseudomorphic replication has enabled a more facile, environmentally friendly synthesis of materials with controllable properties. The guiding principles behind chemistry and crystal engineering are easily identifiable in these natural materials and processes. The topic of this microsymposium is centered on the emerging interface of geological and chemical species and methods, aiming to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences across the fields of materials science, chemistry and geology. This synergy will lead towards prediction of as of yet undiscovered mineral species and the hierarchical design and synthesis of novel functional materials utilizing biological and synthetic complex building blocks.


Introduction
Presentations
10:20am - 10:25am

Introduction to session

Igor Huskić, Tomoji Ozeki



10:25am - 10:55am

Discrete polyoxometalates: from geochemistry via crystal engineering to functional materials

Ulrich Kortz

Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany



10:55am - 11:25am

Exploration of organic minerals on Saturn’s moon Titan

Helen Maynard-Casely1, Rob Hodyss2, Tuan Vu2, Michael Malaska2, Mathieu Choukroun2, Morgan Cable2, Tom Runčevski3

1Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Kirrawee DC, Australia; 2NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA; 3Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA



11:25am - 11:45am

A Crystal Flask Composed of Huge Cage-of-Cage Metallosupramolecules for the Formation of Polyoxomolybdate

Tatsuhiro Kojima, Benny Wahyudianto, Takumi Konno

Osaka University, Osaka, Japan



11:45am - 12:05pm

Autonomous Recombination and Selfhealing of Fracture in Piezoelectric Organic Crystals: Scopes in Crystal Engineering

Surojit Bhunia, Chilla Malla Reddy

Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, Kolkata, India



12:05pm - 12:25pm

Encapsulations of terpenes, aromatic and non-aromatic compound in metal-organic framework via the crystalline sponge method.

Faiza Habib, Derek Tocher, Claire Carmalt

University College London, London, United Kingdom



12:25pm - 12:45pm

Correlated Linker Disorder in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Emily Gabrielle Meekel

University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom