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Omar Farha interview in Royal Society of Chemistry

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Miscellaneous

Addressing water pollution with personalized filters

April 22, 2023

Video segment from Northwestern Magazine “Clean Up on Planet Earth” article featuring Prof. Farha and the Farha Group’s work on addressing the removal of pollutants in drinking water using MOFs.

Symposium:

JACS in Session with…

June 8, 2021

JACS in Session with ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and Inorganic Chemistry on the topic of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Outlooks and Opportunities.

Podcasts:

ACS Nano

October 2016, Episode 111

11:10

Managing Editor Laura Fernandez highlights features and research content from Volume 10, Issue 10. In this episode we learn about a potential nerve agent antidote using metal-organic frameworks. Featuring an interview with Omar Farha.

Read article by Omar Farha.

Conversations with the Dean

Featuring Professor Omar K. Farha

Omar K. Farha, professor of Chemistry and associate editor for ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss Professor Farha’s research effort to combat COVID-19 (as well as other Nerve Agents) with smart and programmable sponges.

Omar is interviewed for C&EN’s first episode of Stereo Chemistry: Get it on iTunes

 

Webinar link “MOFs: What Are They Good For?” (requires login with Cell Press)
In recent decades, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as an intriguing class of porous materials that simultaneously possess crystallinity and designability. As a result, MOFs can be precisely tailored for various functions. As the name suggests, MOFs consist of inorganic metal/metal oxide nodes and organic linkers constituting a multi-dimensional network held together by coordination bonds. The functionalities of MOFs are therefore highly dependent on the structures of the organic and inorganic components. The crystallinity of MOFs serves to support a facile structural understanding upon introduction of guest molecules, thus allowing direct characterization of the host-guest interactions. The well-defined structure of MOFs facilitates advancement of these materials via structural modification to enhance functionality, making them a versatile and promising platform to examine gas storage/separation, chemical sensing, light harvesting, and heterogeneous catalysis, both as catalysts and as solid supports for heterogenizing externally introduced catalysts.
In this webinar from Chem, three world-leading experts from the MOF research field will look to provide answers to the question, MOFs: What are they good for?

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