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Saturday, October 19th 2024
All talks will take place in room L2D2, Engineering Building.
8.50–9.00am
Jeffrey Rimer, University of Houston
Opening Remarks
Session 1
Chair: Rafael Verduzco, Rice University
9.00–9.30am
Hongcai (Joe) Zhou, Texas A&M University
Progress in Molecular Pore Engineering
9.30–9.50am
Brandon Bukowski, Johns Hopkins University
Site Speciation of Rare-earth Element Containing Zeolites for
Synthesis of Sustainable Aviation Fuels
9.50–10.10am
Chenfeng Ke, Washington University in Saint Louis
Designing Porous Organic Materials: Cages, Sheets, and Frameworks via Hydrogen Bonds
10.10–10.30am
Rajamani Gounder, Purdue University
Synthetic Methods to Tune Active Site Distribution in MFI Zeolites and Consequences for Regioselective Arene Methylation
10.30–11.00am
Coffee Break
Session 2
Chair: Ilja Popovs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11.00–11.30am
Ahmad Moini, BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions
Dual-OSDA Approaches for Crystallization of Cage-Containing Zeolites
11.30–11.50am
Anindita Das, Southern Methodist University
Tuning Properties of Emissive Covalent Organic Frameworks via New Strategies
11.50am–12.10pm
Stavroula Alina Kampouri, Rice University
Toward Semiconductive MOFs:
Designing High-Dimensional Secondary Building Units (SBUs)
12.10–12.30pm
Mark Anthony Olson, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi
Simple Coacervates as Active Coatings for Pollutant Adsorbing Sponges
12.30–2.00pm
Lunch
Session 3
Chair: Katherine Mirica, Dartmouth College
2.00–2.30pm
Craig Brown, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Small Molecule Adsorption in MOFs
2.30–2.50pm
Omar Abdelrahman, University of Houston
Base Enhanced Activation of Phosphorous-Containing Zeolites
2.50–3.10pm
Jihye Park, University of Colorado
Advancing 2D Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks via Molecular Approaches
3.10–3.30pm
Lei Fang, Texas A&M University
Porous Ladder-type Polymer Networks
3.30–4.00pm
Group Photo
Coffee Break
Session 4
Chair: Omar Abdelrahman, University of Houston
4.00–4.30pm
Yuriy Román, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TBD
4.30–5.00pm
Shengqian Ma, University of North Texas
Metal-Organic Framework as a New Platform for
Heterogeneous Small Molecule Activation
5.00–6.00pm
Poster Session
The Pit, Engineering Building
6.30–9.00pm
Speaker Dinner
Arnaldo Richards' Picos Restaurant, 3601 Kirby Dr, Houston, TX 77098-3911
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Sunday, October 20th 2024
All talks will take place in room L2D2, Engineering Building.
Session 5
Chair: Manish Shetty, Texas A&M University
9.00–9.30am
Natalia Shustova, University of South Carolina
MOF-Driven Advances in Photophysics:
Spanning from Optoelectronics to Heterogeneous Catalysis
9.30–9.50am
Steven Crossley, University of Oklahoma
Utilizing Water Pulses to Quantify Role of Extra Lattice Al Species on Alkane Activation Reactions
9.50am–10.10am
Ilja Popovs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Small-Molecule-Based Materials: Advancing Chemical Separations
10.10–10.30am
Kyriakos Stylianou, Oregon State University
Designing Materials for Photocatalysis
10.30–11.00am
Coffee Break
Session 6
Chair: Lei Fang, Texas A&M University
11.00–11.30am
Yu-Sheng Chen, University of Chicago
Advanced Crystallography TECHNIQUES Overview at ChemMatCARS after APS-U
11.30–11.50am
Wei Fan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Controlling Zeolite Defects and Crystallization Kinetics
Using Charge Balancing Approach in a Floride Medium
11.50am–12.10pm
Katherine Mirica, Dartmouth College
Molecular Engineering of Conductive Framework Materials for
Simultaneous Chemical Sensing, Filtration, and Detoxification
12.10–12.30pm
Manish Shetty, Texas A&M University
Understanding the Consequences of Metal Cation Mobility on
Hydrocarbon Pool Mechanisms Inside the Confinements of SAPO-34
12.30–2.00pm
Lunch
Session 7
Chair: Jihye Park, University of Colorado
2.00–2.30pm
Rafael Verduzco, Rice University
Photoactive Covalent Organic Frameworks for PFAS Adsorption and Degradation
2.30–2.50pm
Ronald Smaldone, University of Texas at Dallas
Synthesis and Processing Methods for Crystalline Porous Materials
2.50–3.10pm
Hyunho Noh, University of Oklahoma
Cation-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions at Metal−Organic Framework-Liquid Interfaces
3.10–3.30pm
Haoyuan Chen, Southern Methodist University
Multi-Scale Computational Modeling of
Porous Materials in Water Harvesting and Carbon Capture
3.30–4.00pm
Mike Zaworotko, University of Limerick (Ireland)
Newish Materials for a Sustainable World
4.00–4.10pm
Ognjen Miljanić, University of Houston
Closing Remarks
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