Publications de Daniele Ongari

Tandem Hydroformylation-Aldol Condensation Reaction Enabled by Zn-MOF-74

The tandem hydroformylation-aldol condensation (tandem HF-AC) reaction offers an efficient synthetic route to the synthesis of industrially relevant products. The addition of Zn-MOF-74 to the cobalt-catalyzed hydroformylation of 1-hexene enables tandem HF- ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Data-Driven Matching of Experimental Crystal Structures and Gas Adsorption Isotherms of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Porous metal-organic frameworks are a class of materials with great promise in gas separation and gas storage applications. Due to the high dimensional space of materials science and engineering, computational screening techniques have long been an importa ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

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

Diversifying Databases of Metal Organic Frameworks for High-Throughput Computational Screening

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Sauradeep Majumdar

By combining metal nodes and organic linkers, an infinite number of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) can be designed in silico. Therefore, when making new databases of such hypothetical MOFs, we need to ensure that they not only contribute toward the growth ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Pyrene-based metal organic frameworks: from synthesis to applications

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Fatma Pelin Uran, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero

Pyrene is one of the most widely investigated aromatic hydrocarbons given to its unique optical and electronic properties. Hence, pyrene-based ligands have been attractive for the synthesis of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in the last few years. In this ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Using collective knowledge to assign oxidation states of metal cations in metal-organic frameworks

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Knowledge of the oxidation state of metal centres in compounds and materials helps in the understanding of their chemical bonding and properties. Chemists have developed theories to predict oxidation states based on electron-counting rules, but these can f ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Big-Data Science in Porous Materials: Materials Genomics and Machine Learning

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Kevin Maik Jablonka

By combining metal nodes with organic linkers we can potentially synthesize millions of possible metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). The fact that we have so many materials opens many exciting avenues but also create new challenges. We simply have too many ma ...

2020

Thermoelasticity of Flexible Organic Crystals from Quasi-harmonic Lattice Dynamics: The Case of Copper(II) Acetylacetonate

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari

A computationally affordable approach, based on quasi-harmonic lattice dynamics, is presented for the quantum-mechanical calculation of thermoelastic moduli of flexible, stimuli-responsive, organic crystals. The methodology relies on the simultaneous descr ...

2020

Understanding the diversity of the metal-organic framework ecosystem

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Yongjin Lee, Daniele Ongari, Peter George Boyd, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Millions of distinct metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be made by combining metal nodes and organic linkers. At present, over 90,000 MOFs have been synthesized and over 500,000 predicted. This raises the question whether a new experimental or predicted s ...

Nature Research2020

Too Many Materials and Too Many Applications: An Experimental Problem Waiting for a Computational Solution

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Christoph Leopold Talirz

Finding the best material for a specific application is the ultimate goal of materials discovery. However, there is also the reverse problem: when experimental groups discover a new material, they would like to know all the possible applications this mater ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

In Silico Discovery of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Carbon Capture

Aliaksandr Yakutovich, Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Johanna Maria Huck, Kathryn Suzanne Deeg, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Daiane Damasceno Borges, Nakul Rampal

We screen a database of more than 69 000 hypothetical covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for carbon capture using parasitic energy as a metric. To compute CO2-framework interactions in molecular simulations, we develop a genetic algorithm to tune the charg ...

2020

Synergy of classical and quantum computational methods to investigate the properties of microporous materials

Daniele Ongari

The aim of this thesis is to explore the power and the limits of classical and quantum molecular modelling, for the investigation of the adsorption properties of microporous crystalline materials. The materials analyzed are metal organic frameworks (MOFs) ...

EPFL2019

Building a Consistent and Reproducible Database for Adsorption Evaluation in Covalent-Organic Frameworks

Aliaksandr Yakutovich, Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Christoph Leopold Talirz

We present a workflow that traces the path from the bulk structure of a crystalline material to assessing its performance in carbon capture from coal's postcombustion flue gases. This workflow is applied to a database of 324 covalent-organic frameworks (CO ...

2019

Applicability of Tail Corrections in the Molecular Simulations of Porous Materials

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Molecular simulations with periodic boundary conditions require the definition of a certain cutoff radius, r(c) beyond which pairwise dispersion interactions are neglected. For the simulation of homogeneous phases the use of tail corrections is well-establ ...

2019

Can Metal–Organic Frameworks Be Used for Cannabis Breathalyzers?

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Yifei Liu

Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the principal psychoactive component of cannabis, and there is an urgent need to build low-cost and portable devices that can detect its presence from breath. Similarly to alcohol detectors, these tools can be used by law e ...

2019

Evaluating Charge Equilibration Methods To Generate Electrostatic Fields in Nanoporous Materials

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Peter George Boyd, Amber Kashan Mace, Özge Kadioglu

Charge equilibration (Qeq) methods can estimate the electrostatic potential of molecules and periodic frameworks by assigning point charges to each atom, using only a small fraction of the resources needed to compute density functional (DFT)-derived charge ...

2019

Photocatalytic hydrogen generation from a visible-light responsive metal–organic framework system: the impact of nickel phosphide nanoparticles

László Forró, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Kevin Sivula, Gloria Capano, Fatmah Ebrahim, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Berend Smit, Kyriakos Stylianou, Daniele Ongari, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Bardiya Valizadeh, Stavroula Kampouri, Amber Kashan Mace, Ngoc Tú Nguyên

Royal Society of Chemistry2018

Biporous Metal-Organic Framework with Tunable CO2/CH4 Separation Performance Facilitated by Intrinsic Flexibility

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Kyriakos Stylianou, Daniele Ongari, Peter George Boyd, Andrzej Gladysiak, Arunraj Chidambaram, Kathryn Suzanne Deeg, Kaili Yee Ordiz

In this work, we report the synthesis of SION-8, a novel metal-organic framework (MOF) based on Ca(II) and a tetracarboxylate ligand TBAPy(4-) endowed with two chemically distinct types of pores characterized by their hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties ...

2018

Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation from a Visible-Light-Responsive Metal–Organic Framework System: Stability versus Activity of Molybdenum Sulfide Cocatalysts

Berend Smit, Andreas Züttel, Kyriakos Stylianou, Daniele Ongari, Ophélie Marie Planes, Bardiya Valizadeh, Stavroula Kampouri, Wen Luo, Ngoc Tú Nguyên

We report the use of two earth abundant molybdenum sulfide-based cocatalysts, Mo(3)S(13)(2-)clusters and 1T-MoS2 nanoparticles (NPs), in combination with the visible-light active metal-organic framework (MOF) MIL-125-NH2 for the photocatalytic generation o ...

2018

Xenon Recovery at Room Temperature using Metal-Organic Frameworks

Daniele Ongari

Xenon is known to be a very efficient anesthetic gas, but its cost prohibits the wider use in medical industry and other potential applications. It has been shown that Xe recovery and recycling from anesthetic gas mixtures can significantly reduce its cost ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017