TOPIC: Nanospace within Metal-Organic Frameworks: Plenty of Room for Imagination
SPEAKER: Prof. Dr. Shengqian Ma, University of South Florida
TIME: August 5 (Friday) PM 15:00
LOCATION: Room 518, Chemistry Building A (化学A楼518会议室)
INVITER: Prof. Yong Cui (崔勇 教授)

Abstract:
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) represent a new class of materials, and one of their striking features lies in the tunable, designable, and functionalizable nanospace. The nanospace within MOFs provides virtually plenty of room for imagination, allowing designed incorporation of different functionalities for targeted applications, such as gas storage/separation, sensing, drug delivery, catalysis. This seminar will illustrate different approaches to engineer the nanospace of MOFs thereby affording MOFs as a versatile platform for applications in biocatalysis and heterogeneous catalysis.

Bio:
Shengqian Ma obtained his B.S. degree from Jilin University, China in 2003,and graduated from Miami University (Ohio) with a Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Hong-Cai Joe Zhou (currently at Texas A&M University) in 2008.After finishing two-year Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined the Department of Chemistry at University of South Florida(USF) as an Assistant Professor in August 2010. He was promoted to an Associate Professor with early tenure in 2015.He received the 2015 USF Faculty  Outstanding Research Achievement Award. He is the recipient of 2014 NSF CAREER Award and has been selected as the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in both 2014 and 2015; he was also awarded the IUPAC-2015 Young Chemist Travel Award and the 2009 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists from International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC); he received the Young Investigator Award from American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Inorganic Chemistry and the Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship from Argonne National Laboratory in 2008 as well. His current research interest focuses on the development of functional porous materials including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), porous organic polymers (POPs), and microporous carbon materials for energy, biological, environmental-related applications. He has published more than 110 papers (over 70 since independent career, including 1 in Nature, 1 in Nature Communications, 8 in JACS, 4 in ACIE, 2 in Chemical Science, 1 in Chemical Society Review, 1 in Coordination Chemistry Review) with the total citations over 10000 and the H-index of 50.