Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Congratulations to Dieh, Liwei, and Nita

Congratulations to Dieh, Liwei, and Nita, who have all successfully defended their PhD theses in the past few days. Finishing a PhD is always a major accomplishment, and we look forward to watching all three go on to bigger and better things!

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

What We Are Reading

March 24th, 
Understanding Hydrocarbon Adsorption in the UiO-66 Metal Organic Framework: Separation of (Un)satured Linear, Branched, Cyclic Adsorbates, Including Stereoisomers
T. Duerinck, R. Bueno-Perez, F. Vermoortele, D. E. De Vos, S. Calero, G. V. Baron, and J. F. M. Denayer
J. Physical Chemistry C, 117, 12567 (2013)

March 10th,
Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework 8 (ZIF-8)
From "Diffusion in Nanoporous Materials" by Jorg Karger, (Wiley)

Monday, February 3, 2014

What We Are Reading

Feb. 3rd
Cytotoxicity of nanoscaled metal–organic frameworks
C. Tamames-Tabar, D. Cunha, E. Imbuluzqueta, F. Ragon, C. Serre, M. J. Blanco-Prieto, and P. Horcajada. Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2, 262 (2014).

Friday, January 31, 2014

Congratulations Dieh

Congratulations to Dieh, whose paper on diffusion of transition metal adatoms on Ru-supported graphene has appeared in print: B. F. Habenicht, D. Teng, L. Semidey-Flecha, D. S. Sholl, and Y. Xu, Topics in Catalysis 57 (2014) 69 (DOI:10.1007/s11244-013-0163-6)

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

David's Book

David's book, "Density Functional Theory: A Practical Introduction" has recently been translated and published in Turkish. More information here: https://www.nobelkitap.com/kitap_48282_yogunluk-fonksiyonel-teorisi.html

What We are Reading

Jan 27th,
 
Separation of Hexane Isomers in a Metal-Organic Framework with Triangular Channels
Z.R. Herm, B.M. Wiers, J.A. Mason, J.M. van Baten, M.R. Hudson, P. Zajdel, C.M. Brown,
N. Masciocchi, R. Krishna, and J.R. Long. Science 340, 960 (2013).

Jan 21st,

DFT Study of the Chemistry of Sulfur in Graphite, Including Interactions with Defects, Edges and Folds  J-J. Adjizian, C.D. Latham, S. Oberg, P.R. Briddon, and M.I. Heggie. Carbon 62, 256 (2013).

Jan 14th,
 
Wetting Transparency of Graphene  J. Rafiee, X. Mi, H. Gullapalli, A.V. Thomas, F. Yavari, Y. Shi, P.M. Ajayan, and N.A. Koratkar. Nature Materials 11, 217 (2012).

Jan 6th,

Solid-Solid Collapse Transition in a Two Dimensional Model Molecular System
R.S. Singh and B. Bagchi. J. Chem. Phys. 139, 194702 (2013).

Monday, September 9, 2013

How To Win The Nobel Prize....now in YouTube

A video of David's recent seminar at Georgia Tech titled "How To Win The Nobel Prize and Change The World" is now available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csRGjRukZpE