Harnessing host–guest interactions to control structure at the nanoscale

Marta Śliwa; Benjamin O. Stephens; Zhe Zhang; Thomas J. Kempa

doi:10.1515/pac-2020-0701

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Harnessing host–guest interactions to control structure at the nanoscale

Marta Śliwa
Marta Śliwa received her B.S. in Chemistry from Boston University in 2017 and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Kempa Group at Johns Hopkins University where she is studying the synthesis and properties of anisotropic nanoparticles.
, Benjamin O. Stephens
Benjamin O. Stephens graduated from the College of Charleston with a B.S. in Chemistry and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Kempa Group at Johns Hopkins University where he is investigating the mechanism of anisotropic nanocrystal growth.
, Zhe Zhang
Zhe Zhang received his B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University in 2019 and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Kempa Group at Johns Hopkins University where he is studying the synthesis and properties of anisotropic nanoparticles.
and Thomas J. Kempa
Thomas J. Kempa is a 2013 IUPAC-Solvay Young Chemist awardee and currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. After receiving his B.S. in Chemistry from Boston College in 2004, Tom was awarded a Marshall Scholarship and spent 2 years at Imperial College London. Returning to the United States, he began graduate studies under the direction of Prof. Charles Lieber at Harvard University and earned his Ph.D. in 2012. Thereafter, Tom conducted postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. Daniel Nocera, first at MIT and then Harvard. In 2015, Tom joined Johns Hopkins University as a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry. Professor Kempa’s research group develops new methods to prepare and study low-dimensional inorganic crystals from nanoparticles (0D) to few-atom thick sheets (2D) whose exceptional properties render them intriguing platforms for optoelectronic, energy conversion, and quantum science studies. His group’s expertise spans the areas of physical, inorganic, and materials chemistry. Professor Kempa is the recipient of numerous awards including an NSF CAREER Award, a Toshiba Distinguished Young Investigator Award, a Dreyfus Foundation Fellowship in Environmental Chemistry, and a Hopkins Discovery Award.

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Abstract

Host–guest interactions mediate many chemical and biochemical transformations and are extensively exploited in a number of industrially-relevant chemical processes. Many porous inorganic (e.g., zeolite) and molecular (e.g., metal-organic framework) hosts engage reagents in their environment through selective host–guest interactions. While researchers frequently capitalize on host–guest interactions to sequester chemical species or to catalyze reactions, these interactions can also be used to direct nanomaterial synthesis. In this Perspective we highlight the promise and opportunities for harnessing host–guest interactions to control the structure and dimensionality of materials. We focus our discussion on emerging strategies in soft chemistry and promising new directions which use porous ionic solids to direct the growth of complex nanoscale dimers and Janus nanoparticles.

Keywords: Colloidal synthesis; Diamond Jubilee Issue; host–guest chemistry; inorganic materials; interfaces; ligand properties; materials chemistry; nanostructured materials; porous host; self-assembly; structure-function; template-directed synthesis

Corresponding author: Thomas J. Kempa, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, E-mail: tkempa@jhu.edu

Article note: A collection of peer-reviewed articles by past winners of the IUPAC and IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award for Young Chemists to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Pure and Applied Chemistry.Marta Śliwa and Benjamin O. Stephens are equally contributing first authors.

About the authors

Marta Śliwa

Marta Śliwa received her B.S. in Chemistry from Boston University in 2017 and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Kempa Group at Johns Hopkins University where she is studying the synthesis and properties of anisotropic nanoparticles.

Benjamin O. Stephens

Benjamin O. Stephens graduated from the College of Charleston with a B.S. in Chemistry and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Kempa Group at Johns Hopkins University where he is investigating the mechanism of anisotropic nanocrystal growth.

Zhe Zhang

Zhe Zhang received his B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University in 2019 and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Kempa Group at Johns Hopkins University where he is studying the synthesis and properties of anisotropic nanoparticles.

Thomas J. Kempa

Thomas J. Kempa is a 2013 IUPAC-Solvay Young Chemist awardee and currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. After receiving his B.S. in Chemistry from Boston College in 2004, Tom was awarded a Marshall Scholarship and spent 2 years at Imperial College London. Returning to the United States, he began graduate studies under the direction of Prof. Charles Lieber at Harvard University and earned his Ph.D. in 2012. Thereafter, Tom conducted postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. Daniel Nocera, first at MIT and then Harvard. In 2015, Tom joined Johns Hopkins University as a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry. Professor Kempa’s research group develops new methods to prepare and study low-dimensional inorganic crystals from nanoparticles (0D) to few-atom thick sheets (2D) whose exceptional properties render them intriguing platforms for optoelectronic, energy conversion, and quantum science studies. His group’s expertise spans the areas of physical, inorganic, and materials chemistry. Professor Kempa is the recipient of numerous awards including an NSF CAREER Award, a Toshiba Distinguished Young Investigator Award, a Dreyfus Foundation Fellowship in Environmental Chemistry, and a Hopkins Discovery Award.

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Colloidal synthesis; Diamond Jubilee Issue; host–guest chemistry; inorganic materials; interfaces; ligand properties; materials chemistry; nanostructured materials; porous host; self-assembly; structure-function; template-directed synthesis