Monday, March 20, at 12:10 p.m. in CUE 419
The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering is hosting a seminar presented by Satish Nune, Senior Research Scientist, Applied Functional Materials, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA
Dr. Nune is a senior scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, holds a Ph.D. in Synthetic Chemistry, which he earned from the University of Hyderabad (UOH) India in 2004. He is internationally known as an innovator in the development of porous nanomaterials for low temperature geothermal applications, buildings, carbon capture and energy storage. He serves as a principal investigator (PI) and Co-PI on various projects funded by U. S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)-ARPA-E, Geothermal Office (GTO) and EERE. Dr. Nune is also an adjunct teaching faculty at Washington State University (WSU-TriCities). Dr. Nune has organized and co-organized multiple symposiums at American Chemical Society’s (ACS-ENFL) division and at AICHE. Dr. Nune has over 55 peer-reviewed publications (3 more in press) including 4 reviews, 1 book chapter and 12 patents (4 US patents issued and 5 Japan; 3 US patents filed). His research work is highly regarded with numerous citations (>1725) from research groups worldwide and has h-index 21.
Synthesis and Applications of Engineered Hybrid-Porous Materials
Hybrid porous materials including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), doped carbons are considered as the most studied modern materials of 21st century. They exhibit unique properties including extremely high surface area and in some cases structural tailorability which is not possible in any other class of inorganic materials. MOFs are hybrid porous materials that consist of organic connecting ligands and metal ion-containing nodes or secondary building units (SBUs). Zeolites have pore sizes typically <1 nm, MOFs made with proper choice of organic linker, interconnected pore sizes of up to about 4 nm can be achieved easily (Figure 1). Larger MOF pore sizes translate to smaller mass transport limitations compared to other inorganic materials and greater accessibility to active sites in the framework that are critical for inducing selectivity’s. Remarkably high theoretical surface areas (14,600 m2/g) and much higher observed surface areas (>1000 m2/g compared to <900 m2/g for Zeolite Y) and structural tunability make them extremely interesting. MOFs and their functionalized analogues often exhibit properties including high adsorption gas/vapor capacities and extremely high selectivity’s. Dr. Nune will discuss synthesis and use of colloidal nano MOFs as heat carriers and doped carbon-based rods for water management applications.
