{"id":177678,"date":"2023-12-07T21:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/metamaterials-and-origamic-metal-organic-frameworks"},"modified":"2023-12-07T21:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:23:49","slug":"metamaterials-and-origamic-metal-organic-frameworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/metamaterials-and-origamic-metal-organic-frameworks","title":{"rendered":"Metamaterials and origamic metal-organic frameworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metamaterials-and-origamic-metal-organic-frameworks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Origami is a paper folding process usually associated with child\u2019s play mostly to form a paper-folded crane, yet it is, as of recently <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/referenceworkentry\/10.1007\/978-3-319-70658-0_13-2\">a fascinating research topic<\/a>. Origami-inspired materials can achieve mechanical properties that are difficult to achieve in conventional materials, and materials scientists are still exploring such constructs based on origami tessellation at the molecular level.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-43647-8\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, Eunji Jin and a research team in chemistry and particle acceleration at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, described the development of a two-dimensional porphyrinic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal<\/a>-<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organic+framework\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organic framework<\/a>, self-assembled from zinc nodes and porphyrin linkers based on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/origami\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">origami<\/a> tessellation.<\/p>\n<p>The team combined theory and experimental outcomes to demonstrate origami mechanisms underlying the 2D porphyrinic metal-organic framework with the flexible linker as a pivoting point. The 2D tessellation hidden within the 2D metal-organic framework unveiled origami molecules at the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecular+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular level<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Origami is a paper folding process usually associated with child\u2019s play mostly to form a paper-folded crane, yet it is, as of recently a fascinating research topic. Origami-inspired materials can achieve mechanical properties that are difficult to achieve in conventional materials, and materials scientists are still exploring such constructs based on origami tessellation at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}