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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Introduction to Metal-Organic Frameworks and Applica
 tions in Environmental Remediation"
DTSTART:20190409T121500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Wendy L. Queen\, professor\, LFIM (Laboratory for Funtional
  Inorganic Materials)\, EPFL Sion - received her Ph.D. from Clemson Univer
 sity (USA) in 2009. Afterwards\, she accepted a postdoctoral fellowship fr
 om the National Research Council\, which was carried out at the NIST Cente
 r for Neutron Research (USA). In 2012\, she took a scientific position at 
 the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, and in 20
 15 she accepted an Assistant Professorship in the Institute of Chemical Sc
 iences and Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPF
 L) in Switzerland. Her research is focused on the synthesis and characteri
 zation of novel porous adsorbents\, namely metal-organic frameworks\, that
  are of interest in a number of host-guest applications. The ultimate goal
  of her research is to contribute knowledge towards solving globally relev
 ant problems\, like reducing energy consumption\, cutting CO2 emissions\, 
 and water purification. Her desire is to help train a new generation of re
 searchers that have the knowledge and scientific skill set necessary to be
 come future frontrunners in energy-related research.\nAbstract:\nMetal-org
 anic frameworks (MOFs) have gained much attention as next generation porou
 s media for various applications\, especially gas separations/storage and 
 catalysis. These materials\, constructed by metal-ions or metal-ion cluste
 rs that are interlinked by organic ligands\, offer unprecedented internal 
 surface areas allowing the adsorption of a wide range of guest species. Th
 e molecular nature of the organic ligands within the hybrid organic/inorga
 nic newcomers\, induces structural versatility\, allows the introduction o
 f multifunctional properties\, and permits a modular approach to their des
 ign. In these ways MOFs\, which offer unmatched opportunities to achieve o
 ptimal efficiencies in many environmentally relevant applications\, are un
 ique relative to their all-inorganic counterparts. New MOFs are regularly 
 reported\; however\, to develop better materials in a timely manner for sp
 ecific applications\, the interactions between guest molecules and the int
 ernal surface of the framework must first be understood. In this presentat
 ion\, I will give an introduction to metal-organic frameworks and describe
  their application is several important separations\, such as those relate
 d to carbon dioxide capture and water purification.
LOCATION:GR C0 01 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GRC001
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