Departments

SYNTHESIS of new porous materials (eg. zeolites, aluminophosphates, mesoporous silicas, metal-organic framework materials (MOFs), zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs)) as adsorbents with targeted structural properties for efficient and/or selective gas capture.

The development of new CHARACTERIZATION approaches integrated with sorption studies and MODELLING to understand the structure-property-activity relationship for new solutions of gas capture and separation.

CURRENT EMPHASES - TESTING OF MATERIALS for:
- selective capture and conversion of CO₂ from flue gasses,
- direct CO₂ capture from the air (DAC),
- detection of in-door CO₂,
- gas sorption for bioaplications (NO, CO), etc.
 

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Design and degradation of permanently porous vitamin C and zinc-based metal-organic framework

Zeolite Nanocrystals embedded in microcellular carbon foam as a high-performance CO2 capture adsorbent with energy-saving regeneration properties

A facile strategy towards highly accessible and hydrostable MOF-phase within the hybrid polyHIPEs through in-situ metal-oxide recrystallization

Confined crystallization of HKUST-1 metal-organic framework within mesostructured silica with enhanced structural resistance towards water