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:
Susanne Pralle
Yaghi Research Group
Ph: (310) 206-3182
Fx: (310) 206-5891
Links
RSCR: Atlas of Nets

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O'Keeffe Group

BASF

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

2008-04-18: Jon Stewart from BBC Radio interviews the Yaghi Labs
The BBD Radio Programme Science in Action, which is broadcast globally, interviewed members of the Yaghi labs about their incredible ZIF research.
2008-02-27: The Yaghi Lab's Research Featured on Wired.Com
CO2 - Absorbing Crystals Just the Tip of Iceberg for UCLA Lab
2008-02-15: High-Throughput Synthesis of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks and Application to CO2 ...
R. Banerjee, A. Phan, B. Wang, C. Knobler, H. Furukawa, M. O'Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi, Science, 2008, 319, 939-943.
2008-02-15: Researchers in the Yaghi lab have developed porous materials that can soak up 80 times their volume of carbon ...
The results of the Yaghi researchers in the area of ZIF's, zeolitic imidazolate frameworks published in the new issue of Science Magazine.
2008-02-15: Framework Materials Grab CO2 And Researchers' Attention
ZIFs- 11,12,71,20,21,and 71 pictured here are but a few of the ZIFs developed by Yaghi and his researchers that have the capacity to store huge amounts of CO2 as highlighted by Robert Service in Science magazine.
2008-02-07: 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Science Newcomb Cleveland Prize
The Yaghi lab wins the 2007 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
2008-01-17: COF-105 on the 2007 December cover of C&EN
The Yaghilabs's highly porous organic framework known as COF-105
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