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SUMMARY:From Weakness Comes Strength – ADORable zeolites and hemilabile 
 MOFs
DTSTART:20191003T160000
DTEND:20191003T170000
DTSTAMP:20260925T113137Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Russell MORRIS\nSchool of Chemistry\,\nUniversity of St 
 Andrews\, Scotland\nChE-606 - Highlights in Energy Research seminar series
 \nWe quite often here the phrase ‘That material isn’t any use because 
 it isn’t stable!’ used as a way of pointing out a perceived weakness i
 n a material\, but what does it really mean? Of course\, what we really wa
 nt is that our material has the correct stability with respect to its envi
 ronment so that it can complete its function. Materials that don’t have 
 the ‘required’ stability are often then termed ‘useless’ (in the z
 eolite world we most often here this used in connection with lower thermal
  and hydrolytic stability that limits catalytic potential of the material)
 . In this presentation I would like to explore how this perceived weakness
  in a material can in fact be turned into a positive feature. I will use e
 xamples taken from MOFs (a notoriously ‘unstable’ class of material) a
 nd show how understanding where weaker bonds are in the structure can lead
  to some unusual and intriguing effects\, and open up new avenues of poten
 tial application. I will then explain how engineering weakness into zeolit
 es can be used as a route to the preparation of new zeolite architectures 
 using a process we describe using the ADOR acronym.\n\nThe seminar can als
 o be followed remotely by joining the online Cisco WebEx meeting (connecti
 on possible 15 minutes before the talk).\nSee here the documentation how t
 o install the Cisco WebEx add-on on your computer.\nIn case of problem\, y
 ou can contact our IT support (37679 - it.vs@epfl.ch)
LOCATION:Tseuzier\, I17 4 K2 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==I17%204%20K2
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