Graduate student, Saumil Chheda, and former postdoc, WooSeok Jeong, have performed calculations that show how water molecules attach inside the framework of a metal-organic framework, MOF-303, at the atomic level.
Read their paper in Science! This video displays the outcome of this research. This video displays the outcome of this research:
The Gagliardi group is thrilled to gather over a slice for our first group in-person dinner at the Univeristy of Chicago!
It was good to see both new and familiar faces, including some promising first-year graduate students whom we hope will join our group.
Melanie Burns, formerly the Gagliardi Group’s administrator, begins a new journey as the Senior Administrative Director of the University of Minnesota’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences.
Bravo, Melanie!
Laura has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Faraday Lectureship Prize, celebrating the most exciting chemical science taking place today. She won the prize for contributions to the development of multireference quantum chemical approaches to describe catalysis and excited state phenomena. She also receives £3000 and a medal. Read more about it from the Department of Chemistry here. Brava, Laura!
Group member, Teffanie Goh has received the 2021 Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award in General Chemistry.Congratulations, Teffanie!
Dr. Matt Simons successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title “C-H Activation via Direct Oxidative Routes over Molecular Metal-oxo Species Situated in Metal-Organic Frameworks.” Matt has accepted a position at the Dow Chemical Company as a Senior Research Specialist in Packaging, Specialty Plastics and Hyrdocarbons R&D, Process and Catalysis, New Process Technology Development Department located in Freeport, TX.