Final Report Summary - EMATTER (New materials for energy production and sustainable energy use)
The research was a platform to discover routes to new materials. It has shown that it is possible:
1. to have single materials with so many useful functions that they could become almost autonomous, and a single material can replace one or more devices. Work in this area is leading towards material robotics.
2. We can start to grow, bottom-up from single molecules, macroscopic shapes that could almost be seen with the naked eye. We have done this integration of nano-scale engineering without molds or top-down interactions using fields or other confinement. It may become the basis of versatile future manufacturing.
3. Reactions within the pores of nano-structured materials (such as MOFs) obey special rules. We have elucidated many of these rules, and systematized them as routes many researchers can use to achieve multi-functional materials.
4. Phase transitions in confinement, whether on nano-scale, or indeed microscale lenghts, can result in novel properties not present in the bulk materials. We have shown ways to investigate them, including unexpected regimes where frustrations between two similar forces in confinement can give rise to a multitude of morphologies from a single phase transition.
1. to have single materials with so many useful functions that they could become almost autonomous, and a single material can replace one or more devices. Work in this area is leading towards material robotics.
2. We can start to grow, bottom-up from single molecules, macroscopic shapes that could almost be seen with the naked eye. We have done this integration of nano-scale engineering without molds or top-down interactions using fields or other confinement. It may become the basis of versatile future manufacturing.
3. Reactions within the pores of nano-structured materials (such as MOFs) obey special rules. We have elucidated many of these rules, and systematized them as routes many researchers can use to achieve multi-functional materials.
4. Phase transitions in confinement, whether on nano-scale, or indeed microscale lenghts, can result in novel properties not present in the bulk materials. We have shown ways to investigate them, including unexpected regimes where frustrations between two similar forces in confinement can give rise to a multitude of morphologies from a single phase transition.