Publications by Mehrdad Asgari

A post-synthetic modification strategy for enhancing Pt adsorption efficiency in MOF/polymer composites

Mounir Driss Mensi, Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Till Marian Schertenleib

Growing polymers inside porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can allow incoming guests to access the backbone of otherwise non-porous polymers, boosting the number and/or strength of available adsorption sites inside the porous support. In the present wo ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Densification and shaping of pure Cu-BTC powders using a solid-state chemical transformation

Mathieu Soutrenon, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Alexandre Mabillard, Jordi Espin Marti

MOFs are a class of porous crystalline materials whose unique properties have led to applicability in several fields ranging from gas adsorption to drug delivery. Despite their high potential, MOFs are usually found as fine powders, a property that can lim ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Focused on Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposite Membranes

Mehrdad Asgari

The application of organic-inorganic nanocomposite membranes allows for a synergy between the desirable thermal and mechanical properties of inorganic materials with the reactivity, dielectric properties, durability, flexibility, and processability of the ...

BUDAPEST UNIV TECHNOLOGY ECONOMICS2023

Recent Progress in Adsorptive Removal of Water Pollutants by Metal-Organic Frameworks

Mehrdad Asgari

Difficulty in accessing drinkable water resources, mostly originating from water pollution, has become a serious challenge for humans and the environment. Increasing population, growth of industrial activities, and the increasing demand for the agricultura ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

3D vs. turbostratic: controlling metal-organic framework dimensionality via N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry

Mounir Driss Mensi, Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Shuliang Yang, Anita Justin, Till Marian Schertenleib

Using azolium-based ligands for the construction of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is a viable strategy to immobilize catalytically active N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) or NHC-derived species inside MOF pores. Thus, in the present work, a novel copper MOF ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Recent Advances in MOF-Based Adsorbents for Dye Removal from the Aquatic Environment

Mehrdad Asgari, Vikram Vinayak Karve

The adsorptive removal of dyes from industrial wastewater using commercially available adsorbents is not significantly efficient. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer outstanding properties which can boost the separation performance over current commercia ...

MDPI2022

A data-science approach to predict the heat capacity of nanoporous materials

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Mehrdad Asgari, Daniele Ongari, Elias Moubarak, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Özge Kadioglu, Balázs Álmos Novotny, Susana Garcia Lopez

The heat capacity of a material is a fundamental property of great practical importance. For example, in a carbon capture process, the heat required to regenerate a solid sorbent is directly related to the heat capacity of the material. However, for most m ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Recent Applications of Porous Organic Polymers Prepared via Friedel-Crafts Reaction under the Catalysis of AlCl3: A Review

Mehrdad Asgari, Nazanin Taheri

Since the development of porous materials, porous organic polymers (POPs) have received much attention due to advantages such as attractive architecture, large pore volume, high surface area, and immense porosity. Furthermore, their porous structure can be ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Facile ultrasonic-assisted synthesis of SiO2/ZnO core/shell nanostructures: A selective ethanol sensor at low temperatures with enhanced recovery

Mehrdad Asgari

SiO2/ZnO core/shell and composite sensors with 22-97 wt% ZnO content were synthesized by a facile ultrasonicassisted deposition-precipitation method. As for the core, uniform silica spherical particles were synthesized by a microemulsion technique. The pre ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Understanding Your Support System: The Design of a Stable Metal-Organic Framework/Polyazoamine Support for Biomass Conversion

Jeremy Luterbacher, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Shuliang Yang

Introducing oligomeric or polymeric units into metal- organic frameworks (MOFs) can result in composites that have significantly improved properties when compared with the individual MOF or polymer building blocks. With such synergy in mind, this work pres ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

A data-driven perspective on the colours of metal-organic frameworks

Luc Patiny, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Mehrdad Asgari, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Colour is at the core of chemistry and has been fascinating humans since ancient times. It is also a key descriptor of optoelectronic properties of materials and is often used to assess the success of a synthesis. However, predicting the colour of a materi ...

2021

Toward Optimal Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation from Water Using Pyrene-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks

Berend Smit, Mehrdad Asgari, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Fatma Pelin Uran, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Özge Kadioglu

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are promising materials for the photocatalytic H-2 evolution reaction (HER) from water. To find the optimal MOF for a photocatalytic HER, one has to consider many different factors. For example, studies have emphasized the i ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Mechanistic Study on Thermally Induced Lattice Stiffening of ZIF-8

Deepu Joseph Babu, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Qi Liu, Jian Hao

The flexibility of the ZIF-8 aperture, which inhibits a molecular cutoff of 3.4 angstrom, can be reduced by rapid heat treatment to obtain CO2-selective membranes. However, the early stages of the structural, morphological, and chemical changes responsible ...

2021

Synergistic material and process development: Application of a metal-organic framework, Cu-TDPAT, in single-cycle hydrogen purification and CO2 capture from synthesis gas

Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen

We employ a synergistic material and process development strategy to improve the performance of a single-cycle vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) process for the hydrogen purification and the CO2 separation from reforming-based hydrogen synthesis. Bas ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

A Two Step Postsynthetic Modification Strategy: Appending Short Chain Polyamines to Zn-NH2-BDC MOF for Enhanced CO2 Adsorption

Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Anita Justin, Jordi Espin Marti

Functionalizing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with amines is a commonly used strategy to enhance their performance in CO2 capture applications. As such, in this work, a two-step strategy to covalently functionalize NH2-containing MOFs with short chain po ...

2021

Efficient production of polymer-grade propylene from the propane/ propylene binary mixture using Cu-MOF-74 framework

Mehrdad Asgari

We employ the Cu-MOF-74 framework for the separation of a propane/propylene mixed stream. Performing single and binary component breakthrough experiments demonstrates that this framework has a greater capacity and affinity for propylene relative to propane ...

ELSEVIER2021

A metal-organic framework/polymer derived catalyst containing single-atom nickel species for electrocatalysis

Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Olga Trukhina, Wen Luo, Ilia Kochetygov, Shuliang Yang, Jie Zhang, Dragos-Constantin Stoian

While metal-organic frameworks (MOF) alone offer a wide range of structural tunability, the formation of composites, through the introduction of other non-native species, like polymers, can further broaden their structure/property spectrum. Here we demonst ...

2020

Enhancing MOF performance through the introduction of polymer guests

Mehrdad Asgari, Daniel Teav Sun, Wendy Lee Queen, Li Peng, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Shuliang Yang, Anita Justin, Jordi Espin Marti

In this contribution, recent advances in the construction of MOF-polymer composites and their corresponding applications are briefly reviewed. The appearance of such architectures is becoming prominent in recent literature, due to the fact that the union o ...

2020

Characterization of metal organic frameworks of interest for gas adsorption/separation applications

Mehrdad Asgari

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous materials that are applicable in many energy and environmentally relevant areas, due to their unique features including unprecedented internal surface areas and easy chemical tunability. Gas separation ...

EPFL2020

Large anisotropic negative thermal expansion in Cu-TDPAT metalorganic framework: A combined in situ X-ray diffraction and DRIFTS study (vol 51, pg 631, 2020)

Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov

TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS2020