Smart Functionalized Materials for Multistep Catalysis

Computational Design of Functionalized Metal–Organic Framework Nodes for Catalysis

Recent progress in the synthesis and characterization of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has opened the door to an increasing number of possible catalytic applications. The great versatility of MOFs creates a large chemical space, whose thorough experimental examination becomes practically impossible. Therefore, computational modeling is a key tool to support, rationalize, and guide experimenta...

Continuous production of nitrogen-functionalized graphene nanosheets for catalysis applications.

This study reports the "continuous production" of high-quality, few-layer nitrogen-functionalized graphene nanosheets in aqueous solutions directly from graphite via a two-step method. The initial step utilizes our recently developed peroxide-mediated soft and green electrochemical exfoliation approach for the production of few-layer graphene nanosheets. The subsequent step, developed here, pro...

Synthesis of Amino-Functionalized Latex Particles by a Multistep Method

Cationic latex particles with surface amino groups were prepared by a multistep batch emulsion polymerization. In the first one or two steps, monodisperse cationic latex particles to be used as the seed were synthesized, and in the third step, two different amino-functionalized monomers [aminoethylmethacrylate hydrochloride (AEMH) and vinylbenzylamine hydrochloride (VBAH)] were used to synthesi...

Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Catalysis of Oxygen Reduction

Biologically inspired ‘smart’ materials

Inspiration from nature and its translation to designing the next generation of biomedical devices have received immense attention recently. Biologically inspired materials utilise billions of years of evolution to generate diverse properties that would otherwise be difficult to achieve. These materials have the potential to address many limitations associated with more traditional materials. T...