Metal-Organic Frameworks: Promising Materials for Use in Optical Devices

摘要

The last five years have witnessed a huge breakthrough in the creation and study of the properties of a new class of compounds, namely metamaterials. The next stage of this technological revolution will be the development of active, controllable and non-linear metamaterials, surpassing natural media as platforms for optical data processing and quantum information applications. However, scientists are constantly faced with the need to find new methods that can ensure the formation of quantum and non-linear metamaterials with higher resolution. One such method of producing metamaterials in the future, which will provide scalability and availability, is chemical synthesis. Meanwhile, the chemical synthesis of organized 3D structures with a period of a few nanometers and a size of up to a few millimetres is not an easy task and is yet to be resolved [1,2].