Publications by Mehrdad Asgari

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nazanin Taheri, Mehrdad Asgari

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

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

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