报告题目：Programming dynamic crystalline materials?
报告时间：2024年5月15号下午3点-4点
报告地点：16-921会议室
报告人：Luca Catalano
邀请人：李小波

报告人简介：
Luca Catalano received his Ph.D. in 2017 from the Polytechnic University of Milan, under the guidance of Prof. Pierangelo Metrangolo. From 2017 to 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at NYU Abu Dhabi with Prof. Panče Naumov and at the University of Liverpool with Prof. Andy Cooper, before moving with a MSCA cofund Fellowship at the Free University of Brussels hosted by Prof. Yves Geerts. In 2023, he then moved to the University of Rochester working as a senior scientist with Prof. Michael Ruggiero before joining the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia as a tenured Associate Professor of Chemistry. His research interests are focused on dynamic organic crystals and adaptive molecular functional materials.

报告简介：
The design and synthesis of molecular crystals is rapidly becoming one of the most active fields in solid state chemistry, given its enormous economic impact on many fields, such as the production of pharmaceuticals, pigments, fertilizers, pesticides, energy-related materials, magnetic materials, organic semiconductors, porous systems. In this context, controlling polymorphism, namely the occurrence of multiple crystal forms for a given set of starting molecular building blocks, is still an open technological challenge that needs to be addressed for the reliable manufacturing of crystalline functional materials. Here, we explored the rich dynamic landscape of organic crystals1-2 uncovering the link between lattice dynamics and polymorphism to devise a series of 13 organic crystals possessing molecular fragments undergoing Brownian motion driving cooperative shapeshifting phase transitions.3,4 These results introduce for the first time a reliable strategy to design polymorphic molecular crystalline materials endowed with specific molecular-scale and macroscopic dynamics.

代表性论文：

1． Catalano, L.*; Naumov, P. Exploiting rotational motion in molecular crystals. CrystEngComm 2018, 20,5872.

2． Naumov, P.*; Karothu, D.P.; Ahmed, E.; Catalano, L.; Commins, P.; Mahmoud Halabi, J.; Al-Handawi,  M.B.; Li, L. The rise of the dynamic crystals. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 13256.

3． Asher, M.; Bardini, M.; Catalano, L.; Jouclas, R.; Schweicher, G.; Liu, J.; Korobko, R.; Cohen, A.; Geerts, Y.; Beljonne, D.; Yaffe, O.* Mechanistic View on the Order–Disorder Phase Transition in Amphidynamic Crystals. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 1570.

4． Luca Catalano, Kristin M Hutchins, Christopher J Bardeen, Michael T Ruggiero Lattice Dynamics: The Unexplored Multidimensional Dynamic Playground of Molecular Crystalline Materials. Cryst. Growth Des. 2024, 24, 6, 2301–230.

5． Susobhan Das, Luca Catalano, Yves Geerts; Gas Release as an Efficient Strategy to Tune Mechanical Properties and Thermoresponsiveness of Dynamic Molecular Crystals https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202401317.