Check out our cover image for our CrystEngComm perspective on emerging applications of MOFs.
The image shows how MOF crystallisation and structuralisation can be manipulated to facilitate applications, opportunities for MOFs in enzyme encapsulation and drug delivery, and how MOFs can be utilised for trapping species for characterisation by X-ray crystallography.
Research associate Alex Burgun is presenting some of the group's work on 'matrix' isolation of catalytic intermediates in MOFs at ICCC-42 in Brest, France. Alex's oral oresentation is "A Manganese Metal-Organic Framework as a matrix for isolating catalytic intermediates". Good luck Alex!
Alex is also presenting a summary of his work involving alkyne chemtry, including work from his PhD to recent papers in the group, at a symposium to honour Prof. Claude Lapinte.
Our highlight review on the "Emerging Applications of MOFs" was accepted in CrystEngComm. The highlight was co-authored with Raffaele Ricco and Paolo Falcaro (TU-Graz), Constance Pfeiffer and Neil Champness (Nottingham University) and Shuhei Furukawa (Kyoto University).
Alex Burgun's paper on Endohedrally Functionalised Porous Organic Cages was accpeted in Chem. Commun. The paper describes a new synthetic strategy for these materials and the controlled synthesis of POCs with internally directed pyridine functional groups. PSM of POCs....
Damien recently academically qualified for his PhD with his thesis "Metal-Organic Frameworks Containing Dihydroxy Motifs: Control of Phase Formation and Pore Environments".
Damien published four papers during his candidature and contibuted to several others.
Rankine, D., Avellaneda, A., Hill, M. R., Doonan, C. J. and Sumby, C. J. (2012). Control of framework interpenetration for in situ modified hydroxyl functionalised IRMOFs. Chemical Communications 48 (83), 10328-10330. doi: 10.1039/C2CC35565E
