10:30AM - Catered morning tea outside 42-216, with talk to start at 11.00AM.
Speaker: Professor Ben Powell
Affiliation: University of Queensland
Abstract
The 2025 Nobel prize for chemistry was awarded to Richard Robson, Sumusu Kitagawa, and Omar Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks”. Richard Robson did this work at the university of Melbourne. I will explain what metal-organic frameworks are and how they have enabled us to design materials at the atomic scale for the first time. I will describe applications of metal-organic frameworks ranging from carbon capture and storage to sucking water out of desert air. Finally, I will discuss the new possibilities metal-organic frameworks open for quantum materials and our work to exploit them in the Queensland Quantum Decarbonisation Alliance. No expertise in chemistry will be required to understand this talk.
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Venue
Room: 216