Professor Seth Cohen, University of California, San Diego
S.G. Mudd Building
Stanford University
"The MOF-Polymer Interface: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches"
About the Seminar:
Approaches to the formation of hybrid materials between metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and organic polymers will be discussed. Both ‘top-down’ approaches, by blending polymers and MOFs to form mixed-matrix membranes (MMMs), and ‘bottom-up’ approaches by creating a new hybrid we call ‘polyMOFs’, will be discussed. We propose these materials as new, convenient formulations for handling and processing MOFs, as well as useful routes to MOF-derived films and membranes.
About the Speaker:
After high school, Seth Cohen moved to the San Francisco bay area to attend Stanford University (Go Cardinal!) where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Upon completion of his undergraduate education he moved across the bay to attend graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley where he studied under the guidance of Prof. Kenneth N. Raymond. After completing his Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley, he moved to Boston, to perform postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Stephen J. Lippard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After about two and a half years in Boston he moved to my present position at the University of California, San Diego (Go Tritons!). On July 1, 2011, he was promoted to the position of Professor, and served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at U.C. San Diego from July 2012 to June 2015.