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Omar M. Yaghi

Premio Balzan 2024 per materiali nanoporosi per applicazioni ambientali

Per i rivoluzionari contributi alla scoperta e allo sviluppo di materiali a struttura nanoporosa e per l'avanzamento delle loro applicazioni nella cattura del carbonio, nell’immagazzinamento dell'idrogeno e nell’estrazione dell'acqua dall'aria del deserto. Yaghi ha sviluppato principi fondanti di progettazione fondamentali e innovativi metodi di sintesi, creando due ampie classi di materiali nanoporosi: le strutture metallo-organiche (MOF) e le strutture organiche covalenti (COF). Questi materiali pionieristici sono ora in prima linea negli sforzi globali per affrontare le sfide critiche di sostenibilità e ambiente che il nostro pianeta sta fronteggiando.

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Omar M. Yaghi, born on 9 February 1965, in Amman, Jordan, is a US citizen residing in Berkeley, California.

He is currently the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, which he joined in 2012. He is the Founding Director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, Co-Director of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute (Kavli ENSI), Co-Director of California Research Alliance by BASF (CARA), as well as Co-Director and Chief Scientist of the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP).

He received his BS in Chemistry from University at Albany, SUNY, and his PhD in Chemistry from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Omar Yaghi was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. He was on the faculties of Arizona State University (1992-1998) as an assistant professor, the University of Michigan (1999-2006) as the Robert W. Parry Professor of Chemistry, and the University of California, Los Angeles (2007-2012) as the Christopher S. Foote Professor of Chemistry as well as holding the Irving and Jean Stone Chair in Physical Sciences.

Omar Yaghi is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and has been honored with many awards.

Among his most important publications:

Selective binding and removal of guests in a microporous metal-organic framework, O. M. Yaghi, G. Li, H. Li, Nature, 1995, 378, 703-706.

Establishing microporosity in open metal-organic frameworks: gas sorption isotherms for Zn(BDC) (BDC=1,4-benzenedicarboxylate), H. Li, M. Eddaoudi, T. L. Groy, O. M. Yaghi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1998, 120, 8571-8572.

Design and synthesis of an exceptionally stable and highly porous metal-organic framework, H. Li, M. Eddaoudi, M. O’Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi, Nature, 1999, 402, 276-279.

Systematic design of pore size and functionality in metal-organic frameworks and application in methane storage, M. Eddaoudi, J. Kim, N. Rosi, D. Vodak, M. O’Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi, Science, 2002, 295, 469-472.

Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials, O. M. Yaghi, M. O’Keeffe, N. Ockwig, H. K. Chae, M. Eddaoudi, J. Kim, Nature, 2003, 423, 705-714.

Metal-Organic Frameworks with Exceptionally High Capacity for Storage of Carbon Dioxide at Room Temperature, A. R. Millward, O. M. Yaghi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 17998-17999.

Porous, crystalline, covalent organic frameworks, A. P. Côté, A. I. Benin, N. W. Ockwig, M. O’Keeffe, A. J. Matzger, O. M. Yaghi, Science, 2005, 310, 1166-1170.

Exceptional chemical and thermal stability of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks, K. S. Park, A. P. Côté, Z. Ni, J. Y. Choi, R. Huang, F. J. Uribe-Romo, H. K. Chae, M. O’Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2006, 103, 10186-10191.

Designed synthesis of 3-D covalent organic frameworks, H. El-Kaderi, J. R. Hunt, J. L. Mendoza-Cortez, A. P. Côté, R. Taylor, M. O’Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi, Science, 2007, 316, 268-272.

High-throughput synthesis of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks and application to CO2 capture, R. Banerjee, A. Phan, B. Wang, C. Knobler, H. Furukawa, M. O’Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi, Science, 2008, 319, 939-943.

Colossal cages in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks as selective carbon dioxide reservoirs, B. Wang, H. Furukawa, M. O’Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi, Nature, 2008, 453, 207-212.

Multiple functional groups of varying ratios in metal-organic frameworks, H. Deng, C. J. Doonan, H. Furukawa, R. B. Ferreira, J. Towne, C. B. Knobler, B. Wang, O. M. Yaghi, Science, 2010, 327, 846-850.

Metal-organic frameworks with precisely designed interior for carbon dioxide capture in the presence of water, A. M. Fracaroli, H. Furukawa, M. Suzuki, M. Dodd, S. Okajima, F. Gándara, J. A. Reimer, O. M. Yaghi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 8863-8866.

Water adsorption in porous metal-organic frameworks and related materials, H. Furukawa, F. Gándara, Y.-B. Zhang, J. Jiang, W. L. Queen, M. R. Hudson, O. M. Yaghi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 4369-4381.

Covalent Organic Frameworks Comprising Cobalt Porphyrins for Catalytic CO2 Reduction in Water, S. Lin, C. S. Diercks, Y.-B. Zhang, N. Kornienko, E. M. Nichols, Y. Zhao, A. R. Paris, D. Kim, P. Yang, O. M. Yaghi, C. J. Chang, Science, 2015, 349, 1208-1213.

Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight, H. Kim, S. Yang, S. R. Rao, S. Narayanan, E. A. Kapustin, H. Furukawa, A. S. Umans, O. M. Yaghi, E. N. Wang, Science, 2017, 356, 430-434.

Practical Water Production from Desert Air, F. Fathieh, M. J. Kalmutzki, E. A. Kapustin, P. J. Waller, J. Yang, O. M. Yaghi, Sci. Adv., 2018, 4, eaat3198.

Rapid Cycling and Exceptional Yield in a Metal-Organic Framework Water Harvester, N. Hanikel, M. S. Prévot, F. Fathieh, E. A. Kapustin, H. Lyu, H. Wang, N. J. Diercks, T. G. Glover, O. M. Yaghi, ACS Cent. Sci., 2019, 5, 1699-1706.

Covalent Organic Frameworks for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Air, H. Lyu, H. Li, N. Hanikel, K. Wang, O. M. Yaghi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 28, 12989-12995.

MOF water harvester produces water from Death Valley desert air in ambient sunlight, W. Song, Z. Zheng, A. H. Alawadhi, O. M. Yaghi, Nat. Water, 2023, 1, 626-634.