About Us

Supramolecular Chemistry, often described as “chemistry beyond the molecule”, is a wide research area which aims at gaining deep understanding on the various self-assembly and molecular recognition processes that constantly occur in nature. Thus, research in supramolecular chemistry is focused on studying the factors that govern the formation and stability of host-guest and other multi-component systems and the wide variety of interesting properties and applications that arise from them.

In our research group we concentrate on the class of porous materials termed as Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) with emphasis to those which possess luminescence properties.

We design and synthesize MOFs which show affinity towards certain chemical species with a concomitant change of their luminescence properties upon guest binding. In this way we aim at producing efficient luminescent chemical sensors.

In addition, we work on the synthesis and photophysical study of coordination complexes and MOFs which are based on luminescent lanthanides with the aim of creating new materials with interesting photophysical properties such as white light emission and long-lived near infrared luminescence for bioimaging applications.