UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Center for Reticular Chemistry California NanoSystems Institute
Prof. Omar M. Yaghi

Dr. Yaghi's Biography
Contact Information
Yaghi Laboratory
Dept. of Chemistry &
Biochemistry, UCLA
607 Charles E. Young
Dr. East,
Los Angeles, CA
90095-1569
Ph: (310) 206-0398
Fx: (310) 206-5891
Yaghi@chem.ucla.edu

Administration:
Lissett Bastidas
Yaghi Research Group
Primary contact:
By email
lissett@chem.ucla.edu
Ph: (310) 206-3182
Fx: (310) 206-5891
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Reticular chemistry is concerned with linking of molecular building blocks (organic molecules, inorganic clusters, dendrimers, peptides, proteins,...) into predetermined structures in which such units are repeated and are held together by strong bonds.

Research News

2009-10-23: Capturing CO2, an interview with Omar Yaghi
Omar Yaghi has made a major advancement in the development of CO2 capturing materials. Scientists at the UCLA Yaghi Laboratory demonstrated that they can successfully isolate and capture carbon dioxide with a class of new materials.
2009-09-22: Omar Yaghi is the Izatt-Christensen Awardee
Omar M. Yaghi, Jean Stone Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the winner of the 2009 Izatt-Christensen Award, sponsored by IBC Advanced Technologies
2009-08-20: New Trick For MOFs
By incorporating macrocyclic polyethers into the three-dimensional porous structure of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a team of chemists from UCLA and Northwestern University has enhanced the capabilities of MOFs to include specific binding of organic molecules (Science 2009, 325, 855).
2009-08-18: A New Kind of Porosity in MOFs
MOF-1001 exhibits a new kind of porosity where by an incoming molecule can be maneuvered to a specific position in the pore, like a ship maneuvered to the dock.
2009-07-14: Yaghi Lab research featured in New York Times
Build a Better Carbon Trap and ...
2009-05-06: Yaghi is featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Chemist's Pursuit of Molecular Beauty May Yield Energy Breakthroughs
2009-04-27: Omar Yaghi receives the International Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry to be presented at ISMC ...

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