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SUMMARY:Supramolecular Hosts: From Energy Intensive Separations to Sensors
  and Soft Robotics - Prof. Nivine Khashab\, King Abdullah University of Sc
 ience and Technology
DTSTART:20231214T140000Z
DTEND:20231214T150000Z
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CONTACT:Sharon Connor
DESCRIPTION:Host-guest based mechanisms have been heavily exploited for mo
 lecular recognition and eventual separation/ entrapment of a guest molecul
 e. Choosing the right host has in most of the cases depended on compliment
 ary size and charge thus\, focusing mainly on the intrinsic interactions o
 f the guest in the cavity of a macrocycle or a cage. Interestingly\, expan
 ding host-guest interactions to the extrinsic environment of the host affo
 rded an intriguing set of molecular descriptors that ultimately led to une
 xplored host-guest interactions. In this talk\, a set of supramolecular ho
 sts ranging from 2D macrocycles to 3D cages are presented with intriguing 
 intrinsic and extrinsic host-guest interactions that enabled them to be us
 ed for hydrocarbon and isomers separation from crude oil as well as smart 
 recognition units in polymer composites for sensors and soft robotics. Und
 erstanding the full range of supramolecular interactions will ultimately p
 romote a better integration of molecular building blocks to design and fab
 ricate the “next -generation” sustainable and smart materials.\n\n
LOCATION:Dept of Chemistry\, Wolfson Lecture Theatre 
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