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Research in my group is focused on the design and construction of porous frameworks from molecular building blocks of inorganic clusters, metal-organic complexes, organic macromolecules, peptides and proteins. Emphasis is placed on design of porous structures and control of their pore metrics and chemical functionality to produce materials with well-defined chemical structure and highly specific function. This approach has resulted in an extensive class of crystals named metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). So far, in my laboratory more than 500 MOFs have been prepared as bulk materials and studied for their gas storage/separation applications. We have collaborations with a large number of major chemical and auto companies to develop the applications of these materials in hydrogen storage and other gas storage and separations, liquid separations, polymerization catalysis, sensors and more recently drug transport.
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