The recent work by Belén and Carol has been published in Angewandte Chemie. The manuscript demonstrates the general value of tetrazine linkers as plug-and-play tags for general framework functionalization in one-step and how this ligation strategy can be can useful to produce crystalline fulleretic materials by controlling the spatial distribution of C60 molecules in the framework.
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Funimat was present at the ACS Symposium held in Chicago. Natalia, Sergio and Carlos presented our most recent results in the synthesis, processing and engineering of titanium MOFs in symposium dedicated to MOF chemistry whereas Neyvis participated in the Catalysis and reactivity symposium.
The company Porous Materials in Action (PMA), the second spin-off promoted by the for the synthesis and valorization of advanced porous materials useful for industry, has received the 7th VLCStartup award of the Parc Científic of University of Valencia and Banco Santander in the «laboratory» category.
Damian is originally from Poland. He joins us with a Polish internship from the Jagiellonian University of Krakow where he is developing his PhD at the group of Dariusz Matoga. He will approach new strategies for the design of tetrazine MOFs.
After 2 years of COVID suspension we were looking forward to participating in the XIV edition of Expociencia. Close to 50% of the group (Eloy, Natalia, Violeta, Carmen, Clara, Neyvis, Ana and Belén) prepared new activities to approach chemistry to a very young audience.
Carlos has received the 2022 Research Excellence Prize of the Spanish Royal Society in Chemistry for his contributions in the last 5 years to the field of porous molecular frameworks.
Víctor Rubio and Javier López have been awarded Margarita Salas and María Zambrano Fellowships from the Agencia Estatal de Investigación to continue their academic careers at the Katholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Kyoto (Japan).
Our students have created a new Instagram account. With the goal to share their everyday lab life, you will find lot of different content: from new MOF structures to lunch breaks and fun times together. Follow us on @funimat_lab
FuniMAT is formed by mainly women. On the 8th March 2022 they reunited to stand up together for equality and celebrate International Womens Day. We are very proud of the sense of sorority that exist in our group.
On a recent interview, Carlos discusses the importance of porous materials as a new revolution against climate change. MOFs can represent the paradigm shift equally to the emergence of graphene or nanotubes. These MOFs are capable of capturing carbon dioxide, as well as obtaining water from the air in desert areas. They are like crystalline sponges on a molecular scale. They are highly porous materials formed by ordered networks of molecules in which the size of the pores, as well as some of their chemical and physical properties, can be designed to adapt them to specific needs.
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