Public Research Seminar by Sustainable Energy and Environment Thrust, HKUST(GZ) - Applications of Metal–Organic Frameworks in Gas Storage and Separations
Over the past two decades, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been shown to exhibit the high-capacity uptake of various gas molecules. This originates from the remarkable chemical and structural tunability of framework structures relative to other adsorbents, and importantly, certain MOFs outperform traditional adsorbents based on numerous metrics and, as such, are of interest for storage and separations applications of critical relevance to our environment and industry. In recent years, we investigated selective gas adsorption in a number of MOFs using a suite of analytical techniques to derive critical insights into the structural and electronic factors dictating their unique adsorption properties. This presentation will describe the recent results of the unique adsorption behaviors of industrially important gases, such as hydrogen and ammonia. These results help to open the door to developing new avenues in the design and synthesis of novel framework materials for gas adsorption and separation processes.
Dr. Hiroyasu Furukawa is a project scientist in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2000. He received JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellowships in 2003 during which he became a visiting researcher at University of Michigan, Ann Abor and worked with Omar Yaghi to prepare new metal-organic frameworks. After a year he decided to stay in the US, and moved to UCLA in 2006, and UC Berkeley in 2013 with Omar. He switched groups (in the same department at UC Berkeley) in 2016 to work with Jeffrey Long. His main research interests are in the development of crystalline porous materials, including metal−organic frameworks, for the storage and separations of industrially important gases. He published more than 150 papers, 10 of which were published in Nature and Science (without including Nat. Mater. etc.). His work is highly acknowledged, and his work is cited more than 60,000, with the h-index of 70.
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