Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190102036

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP190102036

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Flexible molecular crystals: single crystals that bend, stretch and twist. This project aims to thoroughly quantify the elastic flexibility of a suite of metal-organic molecular crystals. Since antiquity, crystalline materials have been thought to be brittle and inflexible. Crystals can, in fact, display appreciable, even remarkable, elasticity. Some crystals can bend, stretch and twist. The influence that the molecules, and their arrangements in crystals, have on the extent of elasticity will be determined along with molecular-scale mechanisms for contortion. This information will be used to design new crystals with predictable and tunable elasticity for potential applications previously considered impossible for crystalline materials.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 10-01-2019

End Date: 31-12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $450,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy | Functional Materials | Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry | Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Functional Materials | Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry | Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry | Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy

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