MESOCLUST

Luminescent liquid crystalline materials based on metal clusters

Coordinatore	CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE    more  Organization address address: Rue Michel -Ange 3 city: PARIS postcode: 75794 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Anne Cognome: Fagon Email: send email Telefono: 33299286812 Fax: 33299286803
Nazionalità Coordinatore	France [FR]
Totale costo	259˙975 €
EC contributo	259˙975 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-12-01   -   2013-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE  Organization address address: Rue Michel -Ange 3 city: PARIS postcode: 75794 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Anne Cognome: Fagon Email: send email Telefono: 33299286812 Fax: 33299286803	FR (PARIS)	coordinator	259˙975.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The “MESOCLUST” project, which predominantly addresses fundamental research but also aims to take the benefit of further industrial applications, explores a completely new concept regarding the liquid-crystalline materials, namely CLUSTOMESOGENS, reported for the first time in 2010 (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 3351). The main objective of this proposal is the design of new hybrid materials showing liquid crystalline properties as well as bright luminescence in the red-NIR range by coupling metallic clusters with mesogenic units. The metal atom cluster has two important roles: on one hand, can control the self-organization process of the material, and, on the other hand, add its intrinsic properties (luminescence, magnetism, redox) to the final material. Among the different families of metal clusters, octahedral clusters (Mo6 and Re6) were retained for this proposal because of their wide range of physical and chemical properties and, in particular, for their luminescence properties. The novelty of this work consists in compensating the lack of processability of M6 clusters synthesized by solid state chemistry (essentially due to their ceramic-like behaviour in the solid state) by designing nanohybrid inorganic-organic materials that subsequently show liquid crystal properties. It allows therefore their self organization at the molecular scale by a simple heating-cooling process. This project will give more opportunities to the host group to stay the leader in the field at the international level. Although at a first glance, the work is of peculiar interest to academics from a range of backgrounds, in particular to supramolecular, coordination, solid state and material chemists as well as physicists, there is a considerable industrial and commercial potential in the medium and long term as stated in the SusChem Strategic Research Agenda.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Combine organic liquid crystals with metal clusters and you get a new class of compounds - clustomesogens. Through smart use of neutral ligands and binding approaches, EU-funded scientists created some new additions to the family.