Hybrid Luminescent Materials of Nano-Sized Metal Halide and Pseudohalide Clusters in Metal-Organic and Covalent Organic Reticular Templates

We explore various reticular porous materials, such as metal-organic and covalent organic frameworks and polyhedra as molecular templates for formation of confined atomically defined nano-sized solid-state structures within the pores by incorporation of main group metal halide (MH) and pseudohalides. MH materials are known to exhibit exceptional luminescence and other optoelectronic properties. Single crystals of porous materials can be employed as molecular templates for crystallizing MHs within the cavities. In this way, geometry, functionality, electric charge and topology of the pores determines the structure of resulting nano-sized units, what might enable rational synthesis of desired solids and gives access to structures which are not known to form otherwise, and thus further tailoring optoelectronic properties. Our current work focuses on explorations of various frameworks and polyhedra and MHs as hosts and guests, respectively, offering vast compositional and structural space.