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Our group has an knowledged expertise of more than two decades on Molecular Materials Chemistry, oriented to liquid crystals and, more especifically, metallomesogens: metallic compounds that exhibit liquid crystalline properties. Our great capacity for developing this kind of molecules is certified by a high number of papers published in the best scientific journals on chemistry and materials. Though liquid crystals themselves have technological uses (being liquid crystal displays the most popular development), their matter features make them self-organized and easy-to-process materials. Therefore, they are industrially interesting as carriers of any associated property. Single molecules are the ones typically synthesized, so they can exhibit interesting physical properties (such as color, high polarizability, optoelectronic properties, luminescence, etc.). Additionally, their molecular shape can be modified to favor the formation of liquid crystals with the flexibility and order offered by this state of matter. More recently, the formation of heterogeneous organometallic catalysts supported by highly porous organic polymers is developed for sustainable uses in catalysis.

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