报告人：Prof. Omar M. Yaghi
Reticular Chemistry, Climate, AI
The clean air, clean energy, and clean water challenges facing our planet today impact our health, wealth, happiness, and future. These three stresses present difficult science and engineering problems requiring, among many aspects, the selective capture of small molecules (e.g. hydrogen, methane, carbon dioxide, and water). Our ability to capture, store, manipulate, and harness the power of these molecules in an efficient and economical manner is paramount to our success in building a sustainable future. The emerging field of reticular chemistry has yielded extensive classes of ultra-porous metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks. The flexibility with which these materials can be made, modified, and scaled bodes well for their integration into devices and providing robust solutions to these challenges. In this presentation, I will highlight how reticular chemistry has led us to make frameworks for carbon capture from air and flue gas, as well as for harvesting water from air to produce drinking water in various parts of the world regardless of temperature and humidity levels. Our efforts in taking this technology from the laboratory to the field including the design and engineering of prototypes, and applying AI tools to speed up discovery will be discussed and the results presented.
