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SUMMARY:Prof. Randall Snurr : Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platform
 s for Gas Storage and Chemical Separations
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Randall Q. Snurr\,\nDepartment of Chemical & Biological 
 Engineering\,\nNorthwestern University\, Evanston\, USA\nAbstract : Metal
 -organic frameworks (MOFs) are a versatile class of nanoporous materials s
 ynthesized in a “building-block” approach from inorganic nodes and org
 anic linkers.  By selecting appropriate building blocks\, the structural 
 and chemical properties of the resulting materials can be finely tuned\, a
 nd this makes MOFs promising materials for applications such as gas storag
 e\, chemical separations\, sensing\, drug delivery\, and catalysis.  This
  talk will focus on efforts to design or screen MOFs for storage of gaseou
 s fuels\, such as hydrogen and natural gas\, and for separating mixtures o
 f small molecules\, including CO2 capture.  Because of the predictability
  of MOF synthetic routes and the nearly infinite number of possible struct
 ures\, molecular modeling is an attractive tool for screening new MOFs bef
 ore they are synthesized.  Modeling can also provide insight into the mol
 ecular-level details that lead to observed macroscopic properties.  This 
 talk will illustrate how a combination of molecular modeling\, machine lea
 rning\, and experiments can be used to discover\, develop\, and ultimately
  design new MOFs for desired separation and storage applications.\n\nBio :
  Randy Snurr is the John G. Searle Professor of Chemical and Biological E
 ngineering at Northwestern University\, where he served as Department Chai
 r from 2017 to 2023. He holds BSE and PhD degrees in chemical engineering 
 from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California\, Ber
 keley\, respectively. He performed post-doctoral research at the Universit
 y of Leipzig in Germany supported by a fellowship from the Alexander von H
 umboldt Foundation. Other honors include the Institute Award for Excellenc
 e in Industrial Gases Technology from the American Institute of Chemical E
 ngineers\, the Ernest W. Thiele Award from the Chicago Section of AIChE\, 
 and election as a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences an
 d Humanities. He has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate and
  is an associate editor for the AIChE Journal. His research interests incl
 ude development of new nanoporous materials for solving energy and sustain
 ability problems\, molecular simulation\, machine learning\, adsorption se
 parations\, diffusion in nanoporous materials\, and catalysis.\n\n 
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