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Metal-organic frameworks for sustainable energy conversion and storage

University event offered by Queen Mary University of London

Event Summary:

In this lecture, Dr Petra Ágota Szilágyi, will discuss the effect of engineering the chemistry for host-guest interactions in these materials on their applicability for sustainability purposes. She will showcase the recent work of her group aimed at a range of energy and environmental applications. Talk length 30 minutes.

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Full Event Details:

Dr Petra Ágota Szilágyi was recognised in Women's Engineering Society top 50 women in engineering for sustainability and is a lecturer in Functional Materials in the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary. Her research is focussed on the sustainable synthesis of metal-organic frameworks and their application for energy conversion and storage. Metal-organic frameworks are a new class of hybrid (inorganic-organic) porous materials, which have received tremendous scientific and technological interest. In this lecture she will discuss the effect of engineering the chemistry for host-guest interactions in these materials on their applicability for sustainability purposes. She will showcase the recent work of her group aimed at a range of energy and environmental applications.

Talk length 30 minutes plus questions

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Bookings by Teachers for Key Stage 5 (Students aged 16-18)

Duration:

Short Session

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