It is estimated that current chemical separations based on heat account for ca. 10-15% of the nation’s total energy consumption. Our goal is to design alternative separation technologies using synthesized sponge-like crystals to facilitate selective molecular recognition and sorting.
Key publications:
(1) Campillo-Alvarado, G.; D’mello, K.; S. V. Mariappan, S.; Swenson, D. C.; Höpfl, H.; Morales-Rojas, H.; MacGillivray, L. R., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 5413-5416.
(2) Campillo-Alvarado G.; D’mello, M.; Sinnwell, M.; Höpfl, H.; Morales-Rojas, H.; MacGillivray L. R., Front. Chem. 2019, 7:695. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00695
(3) Campillo-Alvarado, G.; Vargas-Olvera, E. C.; Höpfl, H.; Herrera-España, A. D.; Sánchez-Guadarrama, O.; Morales-Rojas, H.; MacGillivray, L. R.; Rodríguez-Molina, R.; Farfan, N., Cryst. Growth Des. 2018, 18, 2726-2743