Flow Chemistry Meets Advanced Functional Materials

Abstract

Flow chemistry and continuous processing techniques are beginning to have a profound impact on the production of functional materials ranging from quantum dots, nanoparticles and metal organic frameworks to polymers and dyes. These techniques provide robust procedures which not only enable accurate control of the product material's properties but they are also ideally suited to conducting experiments on scale. The modular nature of flow and continuous processing equipment rapidly facilitates reaction optimisation and variation in function of the products.

Continuous flow production of metal-organic frameworks

“…Recently continuous flow chemistry has shown great promise for the scalable synthesis of advanced functional materials [36]. Continuous flow technology has been recognised as an attractive alternative to conventional batch processing and this approach may ameliorate the aforementioned challenges associated with the scaled synthesis of MOFs [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44].…”

Integrated Micro‐Flow Synthesis Based on Photochemical Wolff Rearrangement

“…[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38] (1) Precise control of short reaction times (<1 sec) can be achieved.…”

Flow chemistry vs. flow analysis

“…Among numerous applications of continuous flow synthesis, particular attention is paid to synthesis of natural products [25], medicinal chemistry applications [26] and advanced functional materials [27]. They include synthesis of nano-and microparticles for biomedical applications [28] or metallic nanoparticles for catalytic applications in organic syntheses [29].…”