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SUMMARY:Chemical Engineering Seminar - Programmable Smart Bio-Inspired Spo
 nges
DTSTART:20190301T161500
DTEND:20190301T173000
DTSTAMP:20260408T015928Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Omar K. Farha\, Department of Chemistry\, Northwestern U
 niversity\, USA.\nMetal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class 
 of solid-state materials built up  from metal-based nodes and organic lin
 kers. They exhibit permanent porosity and unprecedented surface areas whic
 h can be readily tuned through coordination chemistry at the inorganic nod
 e and/or organic chemistry at the linkers. The high porosities\, tunabilit
 y\, and stability are highly attractive in the context of catalysis. As ex
 emplified by many catalytic enzyme assemblies in nature\, site-isolation i
 s a powerful strategy for performing catalytic reactions. MOFs provide an 
 exciting platform for deploying catalysts in a site-isolated fashion and t
 he cavities surrounding them can be engineered to conceptually mimic enzym
 es. This talk will address new advances in the synthesis and catalytic act
 ivity of MOF/Enzyme composite materials developed at Northwestern Universi
 ty.
LOCATION:BCH 2201 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BCH%202201
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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