Metal Coordination Complexes in Technology and Biomedicine

Project funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation (Investigators), grant NNF21OC0066735. Participating organisations named by the source: Aarhus University. Runs n/a to 2025-10-31. Keywords: Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials, Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics, Quantum Technologies. Source: OpenAIRE Graph, from the funder's project data (collected by OpenAIRE on 2025-08-01); national funding data, not CORDIS; selected because its keywords name quantum. Abstract given by the source: A century ago, Alfred Werner received the Nobel prize for discovering the octahedral structure of transition metal complexes. Since then, quantum mechanics, crystallography and coordination chemistry has together explored the fascinating properties of metal complexes, and we are now able to explain the amazing colors and the incredible magnetic and catalytic properties of these materials. However, this does not mean that they are obsolete. Far from it, in fact. We are on the edge of the quantum computing era, and we will in this project explore the development of metal complexes as quantum bits. In a different path, we will construct multifunctional metal complexes where we combine their ability to absorb and emit light with their photoactivity. Using such a design, we will develop drugs that can be directed to specific cells where light triggers the release of small molecules, ready to take action inside cells.

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AI-assisted summary: The project "Metal Coordination Complexes in Technology and Biomedicine" is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and involves Aarhus University, running until October 31, 2025. It explores the use of metal complexes in quantum computing and their multifunctional properties. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.