Project description
New material functionalities with atomic precision
Advances in materials science are constrained by conventional synthesis methods, limiting the creation of materials with unique functionalities. Traditional approaches often fall short in enabling precise atomic- or molecular-level control over material properties. To overcome these challenges, the ERC-funded UniEn-MLD project will push the boundaries of atomic/molecular layer deposition (ALD/MLD) to create novel metal-organic materials and superstructures with unique properties. The project focuses on developing materials with intricate bonding schemes, crystal structures, and interface interactions – features previously inaccessible using traditional methods. It will explore synergistic combinations of material functionalities, including structural guidance, redox control, and stimuli-switching. These innovations could open new opportunities in fields such as magnetic information storage and energy harvesting.
Objective
UniEn-MLD research seeks the extremity of the atomic/molecular layer deposition (ALD/MLD) thin-film technique to enable unforeseen material functionalities. The targeted metal-organic materials and interface-engineered superstructures are designed and elaborated so that the unique advantages of this atomic/molecular precision gas-phase synthesis approach can be best exploited.
New science evolves from our aim at (i) unique material assemblies (bonding schemes, crystal structures, layer piling sequences, interface interactions) not accessible through conventional synthesis, and (ii) synergistic combinations of different material functionalities, also such which would be mutually exclusive in conventional materials. An important project part is the search for new innovative organic components capable in bringing, e.g. structural guidance, redox control, carrier doping or stimuli-switching into the hybrid material, to create the desired functionalities.
The technical advantage follows from the specific ALD/MLD mechanism which yields the new adventurous materials as high-quality large-area homogeneous and conformal coatings, even on demanding surfaces. This opens attractive new avenues for technology advances in important and strongly emerging fields, such as efficient magnetic information storage and local energy harvesting and storage, also addressed within the UniEn-MLD action.
This project builds on my long experience in frontier functional material research, and my pioneering role in the development of the ALD/MLD technology for building a beautiful variety of intriguing metal-organic materials. Our proof-of-concept results also support the main hypotheses and feasibility of this ambitious UniEn-MLD research.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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02150 Espoo
Finland
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