#  Timothy Cook (University at Buffalo) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **December 6, 2023** 

 04:15PM - 05:15PM EST 

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 **Pfizer Lecture Hall**  



 

 



 

 Title: Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly for Energy Capture, Storage, and Use

 The use of metal-ligand bonding as a driving force for self-assembly reactions enables the construction of

 polynuclear architectures. Depending on the building blocks used, the resulting assemblies may be discrete

 molecules or extended frameworks. The Cook Group explores coordination-driven self-assembly with an

 emphasis on functional designs. By exploiting the presence of multiple metal centers and rigid organic

 building blocks, it is possible to design metal-organic architectures that are capable of catalysis,

 electrochemical energy storage, and separations chemistry. We have also studied the so-called

 emergent properties that result when two or more photoactive building blocks interact within a

 structure, to give photophysical properties that differ from the parent tectons. This talk will introduce

 fundamental aspects of coordination-driven selfassembly and then will highlight our advances in the

 area of oxygen reduction electrocatalysis and other processes of relevance to renewable energy.



 



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Harvard/MIT Inorganic Chemistry Seminar ](/seminars/inorganic-chemistry-seminar)
 
 

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