Congratulations to Dr. Rayder who defends his thesis “Bioinspired Host-Guest MOF Composites for Fuel Production”! This is the first virtual thesis defence in the history of the group!
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Tom’s research involves the encapsulation of homogeneous transition metal catalysts in MOFs through aperture-opening processes. Most recently, he is applying this approach to optimization of the cascade reduction of CO2 to methanol as an alternative fuel source.
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