Optical seminar | 23 September 2022

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), being a highly crystalline porous solids, are very promising materials for optics due to a combination of organic and inorganic nature, crystallinity, flexibility, and hierarchy. Recently, the optical properties such as photoluminescence, lasing, second harmonic generation, nonlinear optical absorption, and laser abliation for MOFs and its superstructures have been investigated and described in details. Intriguing, the number of different weak and strong chemical bonds, providing the ordered structure with a complex hierarchy, allows one also to explore fundamentally new properties of MOFs interacting with light. Besides, the study of optical properties of MOF-based nanoparticles and the improvment of optical stability of MOF-based composites have not been fully investigated before. Here, I report that MOF-based nanoparticles with complex morphology, obtained through the interaction with laser irradiation, and polymer or amorphous MOF-based composites exhibit linear and non-linear optical responses.

Main paper/arXiv, related to the seminar, and other references
1. Nikita K. Kulachenkov, Stéphanie Bruyere, Sergey A. Sapchenko, Yuri A. Mezenov, Dapeng Sun, Andrei A. Krasilin, Alexandre Nominé, Jaâfar Ghanbaja, Thierry Belmonte, Vladimir P. Fedin, Evgeny A. Pidko, Valentin A. Milichko, “Ultrafast Melting of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Advanced Nanophotonics”, Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 30, 1908292, 2020.
2. Yuri A. Mezenov, Andrei A. Krasilin, Vladimir P. Dzyuba, Alexandre Nominé, Valentin A. Milichko, “Metal–Organic Frameworks in Modern Physics: Highlights and Perspectives”, Advanced Science, vol. 6, 1900506, 2019.
3. Leila R. Mingabudinova, Anastasiia S. Zalogina, Andrei A. Krasilin, Margarita I. Petrova, Pavel Trofimov, Yuri A. Mezenov, Evgeniy V. Ubyivovk, Peter Lönnecke, Alexandre Nominé, Jaafar Ghanbaja, Thierry Belmonte, Valentin A. Milichko, “Laser printing of optically resonant hollow crystalline carbon nanostructures from 1D and 2D metal–organic frameworks”, Nanoscale, vol. 11, pp. 10155-10159, 2019.
4. Yuri A. Mezenov, Nikita K. Kulachenkov, Andrei N. Yankin, Sergey S. Rzhevskiy, Pavel V. Alekseevskiy, Venera D. Gilemkhanova, Semyon V. Bachinin, Vyacheslav Dyachuk, Valentin A. Milichko, "Polymer Matrix Incorporated with ZIF-8 for Application in Nonlinear Optics", Nanomaterials, vol. 10, 1036, 2020.
5. Yuri A. Mezenov, Stephanie Bruyere, Andrei Krasilin, Ekaterina Khrapova, Semyon V. Bachinin, Pavel V. Alekseevskiy, Sergei Shipiloskikh, Pascal Boulet, Sebastien Hupont, Alexandre Nomine, Brigitte Vigolo, Alexander S. Novikov, Thierry Belmonte, and Valentin A. Milichko, "Insights into Solid-To-Solid Transformation of MOF Amorphous Phases", Inorganic Chemistry, 61, 13992–14003, 2022.