Lei Gan will defend his PhD Thesis on 22 September at 11 am!
The PhD Researcher Lei Gan from the Inorganic Materials & Catalysis Group (LMI) at ICMAB will defend his PhD thesis on Tuesday, 22 September 2020, at 11 am at the ICMAB. The PhD Thesis Defense will be held by videoconference from the ICMAB Meeting Room. Register here to attend the PhD Thesis defense via Zoom.
Design, Synthesis and Applications of V-shaped Polycarboxylate meta–Carborane-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks
by Lei Gan, Inorganic Materials & Catalysis Group (LMI)
Abstract: In this thesis, we present a study on the design and synthesis of V-shaped polycarboxylate meta–carborane-based linkers and the exploration of their resulting metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with Cu or Zr clusters. These carborane-based MOFs show some properties such as extraordinary hydrolytic stability, as a result of the high hydrophobicity of the carborane moieties. Based on these properties, the first reported three-dimensional polycarboxylate meta–carborane-based MOFs exhibit good gas, liquid separation and capture of toxic phosphorous compound.
Supervisors:
José Giner, LMI group, ICMAB, CSIC
PhD Committee:
President: Daniel Ruiz Molina, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Spain
Secretary: Ana Eva Platero Prats, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain
Vocal: David Fairen Jimenez, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, UK