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A theoretical study was recently performed by Gagliardi group postdoc and Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC) scientific coordinator Varinia Bernales, within a collaboration of the members of the ICDC, on the NU-1000 metal-organic framework (MOF).

This study resulted in a major achievement – the discovery that the adsorption processes of glucose and cellobiose on the NU-1000 MOF occur at the hydrophobic sites. Until now, only enzymes have demonstrated the ability to selectively bond the β-linked dimer of glucose (cellobiose), while completely rejecting the bonding of glucose itself. Great work, Varinia!

A collaborative team of researchers that includes Laura, along with Eray Aydil and Chris Leighton from the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science (CEMS), have received a research grant to explore pyrite iron disulfide as a low-cost solution for renewable electricity.

This team was one of four at the University of Minnesota to receive a $717,360 grant from the Institute on the Environment’s Renewable Electricity for Minnesota’s Future grant program.

The Spring 2016 issue of the Frontiers in Energy Research newsletter features the work of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center, of which Laura is the Director.

An article, titled “Five Cents About Nickel Catalysts,” was co-authored by Gagliardi group postdoc and ICDC scientific coordinator Varinia Bernales.

As part of their Physical Chemistry Seminars series, Laura gave a talk, “Multireference Methods for Excited-States and Transition-Metal Containing Systems,” at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Collaborative research led by Laura and Chris Cramer has been selected for publication in a special American Chemical Society (ACS) virtual issue on atomic layer deposition (ALD).

Laura gave an invited talk at Harvard/MIT’s Inorganic Chemistry Seminar.

Five Chemistry graduate students at Minnesota, including Gagliardi Group member Josh Borycz, will present their research at the University’s 2016 Doctoral Research Showcase on April 6.

A collaborative team within the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center presented an approach called nanocasting to provide a more thermally stable scaffold for MOF-based catalytic metal sites, making them suitable for high temperature catalysis.

The Gagliardi and Cramer groups recently elucidated the mechanism of a single-site nickel catalyst synthesis and the catalytic activity thereof in an article published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Laura was one of the contributors to the U.S. Department of Energy: Winter 2015 Frontiers in Energy Research newsletter article, “Perspectives on Women in Energy Science.”

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