Optoelectronic processes in covalent organic frameworks

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are crystalline porous materials constructed from molecular building blocks using diverse linkage chemistries. Their modular construction system allows not only for tailor-made design but also for an immense variety of building blocks, opening the door to numerous different functionalities and potential applications. As a consequence, a large number of building blocks that can act as light-harvesters, semiconductors, ligands, binding sites or redox centers have recently been integrated into the scaffolds of COFs. This unique combination of reticular chemistry with the molecular control of intrinsic properties paves the way towards the design of new semiconducting materials…

• DF
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Awards: SPP 1613, Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2089/1 – 390776260 NIM (Excellence Cluster 4)
• HE
  H2020 European Research Council

  Awards: FP7/2007-3013, 321339