Allison Dzubak successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, “Computational Modeling of Gas Adsorption, Separation and Reactivity within Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal-Organic Framework Materials.”
Congratulations, Dr. Dzubak!
The leadership team of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (Director Laura Gagliardi, Deputy Director Joe Hupp, Managing Director Jody Kaplan, and Scientific Coordinator Laura Fernandez) participated in the ICDC EFRC Management Review in Washington, DC.
The team made a comprehensive presentation to several program officers from the U.S. Department of Energy and a DOE-selected panel consisting of five expert peer reviewers from different institutions. Some members of the Gagliardi Group participate in the ICDC’s research.
The Gagliardi group has published three papers in Nature Chemistry this year.
This is the largest number of papers that a single group has published in this journal this year. Congratulations to the group!
Postdoc Samuel Odoh and graduate student Gary D. Bondarevsky’s exciting work on uranyl uptake by proteins has just been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Congratulations Sam and Gary!
Laura gave a seminar at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and visited former group member Nora Planas, who is now an assistant professor at Eau Claire.
It was great to see you, Nora!
Laura explains her research work on modeling chemical processes for renewable energies to non-specialists.
Congratulations to Giovanni Li Manni and Dongxia Ma who have taken positions at the Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany.
Laura Gagliardi named Director of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC)!
Laura Gagliardi is the Director of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC), a Department of Energy-sponsored Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC). The ICDC started on August 1, 2014, and is headquartered at Minnesota. Several institutions and national laboratories are members of the ICDC.
Laura talks about the University of Minnesota EFRC ICDC in the July issue of Energy Frontiers Research Centers Newsletter.
A collaborative effort between the experimental research group of Suzanne Bart at Purdue University, and the Gagliardi group has shown significant progress in using redox-active ligands to engage multielectron reactivity in uranium in analogy to transition metal.
Participating in the study were postdoc Samuel Odoh and graduate student Yiyi Yao, and several students from Purdue University.
The Gagliardi Group participated in a photo opportunity along with other members of the Chemical Theory Center (CTC) of which Laura is the Current Director!
The Department of Chemistry has been awarded a $12 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to lead an Energy Frontier Research Center aimed at accelerating scientific breakthroughs in energy research.
The University of Minnesota’s center is one of only 32 innovative energy research projects nationwide chosen from a highly competitive field of 200 proposals.
The Department of Chemistry has been awarded a $12 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to lead an Energy Frontier Research Center aimed at accelerating scientific breakthroughs in energy research.
The University of Minnesota’s center is one of only 32 innovative energy research projects nationwide chosen from a highly competitive field of 200 proposals.
Laura, Rebecca Carlson, Dongxia Ma, Joshua Borycz, and Kostantinos Vogiatzis presented their latest research at the 2014 Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference.
Laura gave a talk on ‘Quantum chemically derived force fields for MOF,’ at the Telluride Workshop on Many-Body Interactions: from Quantum Mechanics to Force Fields.
Newly published research focuses on the oxidation of ethane to ethanol in a metal-organic framework—a step toward greater energy efficiency.
A collaborative effort between the experimental research group of Jeff Long at the University of California Berkeley and the computational groups of Laura Gagliardi and Don Truhlar at the University of Minnesota has shown significant progress in this direction. Also participating in the study were post-doctoral associate Nora Planas and graduate students Joshua Borycz, Allison L. Dzubak, and Pragya Verma from the University of Minnesota and several students and postdoctoral associates from Berkeley. A paper by these groups that appeared, Sunday May 18, 2014, in Nature Chemistry shows that isolated terminal iron–oxo moieties, supported on a metal–organic framework (MOF), selectively oxidizes ethane into ethanol in the presence of N2O under mild conditions.
In a recent Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) communication, two members of the Gagliardi group, graduate student Chad Hoyer and post-doctorate Giovanni Li Manni, computationally characterized an unprecedented two-coordinate, high-spin Mn(0) complex.
The work was in collaboration with Professor Cameron Jones of Monash University and Professor Keith Murray of Cardiff University. The molecule has been experimentally shown to behave as an “inorganic Grignard reagent” in the preparation of the first two-coordinate Mn(I) dimer and a heterobimetallic Mn(II)-Cr(0) complex.