RESEARCH MENTORING

Fall2015-Spring 2016:           Briana Aguila "Graduate Intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)"    Project: Removal of Pertechnetate related Oxyanion using Functionalized Hierarchical Porous Frameworks from Solution.              published in Chem. Eur. J. 2016  (Banerjee, D.; Elsaidi, S. K.; Nie, Z.; Li, B.; Aguila, B.; Ma, S.; Thallapally, P. K. Chemistry A European Journal 2016, 22, 17581. another manuscript is under preparation.   

Spring 2013 - Spring 2014 :   Taher Hussein Student at University of South Florida (USF) (Undergraduate research program, USF) Project: Design of functional porous materials for capture and separation of CO2 - published in Cryst. Growth Des. 2015 Elsaidi, S. K.; Mohamed, M. H.; Pham, T.; Hussein, T.; Wojtas, L.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Space, B. Crystal Engineering of a 4,6-c fsc Platform That Can Serve as a Carbon Dioxide Single-Molecule Trap. Crystal Growth & Design 2015, 16, 1071.

Fall 2013-Spring 2014           Eric Choy Student at University of South Florida (USF) (Undergraduate research program, USF) Project: Material design for CH4 storage.

Fall 2013-Spring 2014:         Linh Le Student at University of South Florida (USF) (Undergraduate research program, USF) Project:“Sulphonate-decorated square grid networks for CO2 separation” – Manuscript in preparation. 

Fall 2013                             Ryan Kim Student at University of South Florida (USF) Student at University of South Florida (USF) (Undergraduate research program, USF) Project: Water treatments using functional porous materials

Fall 2013:                             Sarah Funaro   Student at University of South Florida (USF) (Undergraduate research program, USF) Project: Crystal Engineering of Metal organic frameworks and fundamental understanding of CO2 interaction with framework binding sites

Fall 2013                             Ali Althowaikh  Student at University of South Florida (USF) (Undergraduate research program, USF) Project: Water treatments using MOFs

Summer 2013- Fall 2013       Rishi Maraj Student at University of South Florida (USF) (Undergraduate research program, USF) Project:  Design and synthesis of Conductive Sulphonate-decorated metal organic frameworks. 

Spring 2013- Summer 2013   George Pitt Student at University of South Florida (USF) (Undergraduate research program, USF) Project: H2 storage using functional porous materials work presented by George at Castle Student Research Conference spring 2014, poster.

Fall 2012-Spring 2013         Natasha Barbour Student at University of South Florida (USF) (Undergraduate research program, USF) Project: Ionic conductivity of MOFs