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  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Brian Space is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their body of work primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with notable contributions in the subfields of Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. Additional areas of focus include Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Environmental Chemistry.

Their research topics reflect a specialization in Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), especially in synthesis and applications. Other main topics of work include Covalent Organic Framework Applications, Membrane Separation and Gas Transport, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds, Machine Learning in Materials Science, and Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing.

Brian Space has published extensively in several frequent venues including:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Selected recent papers include:

  • Metal-Organic Framework Based Hydrogen-Bonding Nanotrap for Efficient Acetylene Storage and Separation, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • A MOF-based Ultra-Strong Acetylene Nano-trap for Highly Efficient C2H2/CO2 Separation, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • One-step ethylene production from a four-component gas mixture by a single physisorbent, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Breaking the trade-off between selectivity and adsorption capacity for gas separation, 2021, Chem
  • Amino-Functionalised Hybrid Ultramicroporous Materials that Enable Single-Step Ethylene Purification from a Ternary Mixture, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent collaborators in Brian Space's research include Tony Pham, Katherine A. Forrest, Michael J. Zaworotko, Soumya Mukherjee, and Shengqian Ma. These coauthors have contributed to multiple joint publications, highlighting collaboration in related research areas.

Brian Space was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Porous materials with optimal adsorption thermodynamics and kinetics for CO2 separation

    Patrick Nugent;Youssef Belmabkhout;Stephen D. Burd;Amy J. Cairns

  • Synergistic sorbent separation for one-step ethylene purification from a four-component mixture.

    Kai-Jie Chen;David G. Madden;Soumya Mukherjee;Tony Pham

  • Robust Ultramicroporous Metal-Organic Frameworks with Benchmark Affinity for Acetylene.

    Yun-Lei Peng;Tony Pham;Pengfei Li;Ting Wang

  • Introduction of π-Complexation into Porous Aromatic Framework for Highly Selective Adsorption of Ethylene over Ethane

    Baiyan Li;Yiming Zhang;Rajamani Krishna;Kexin Yao

  • Metal-Organic Framework Based Hydrogen-Bonding Nanotrap for Efficient Acetylene Storage and Separation.

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  • Benchmark C2H2/CO2 and CO2/C2H2 Separation by Two Closely Related Hybrid Ultramicroporous Materials

    Kai-Jie Chen;Hayley S. Scott;David G. Madden;Tony Pham

  • A Stable Metal-Organic Framework Featuring a Local Buffer Environment for Carbon Dioxide Fixation.

    Hongming He;Qi Sun;Wenyang Gao;Jason A. Perman

  • Tuning Pore Size in Square-Lattice Coordination Networks for Size-Selective Sieving of CO2.

    Kai‐Jie Chen;Kai‐Jie Chen;David G. Madden;Tony Pham;Katherine A. Forrest

  • A Robust Molecular Porous Material with High CO2 Uptake and Selectivity

    Patrick S. Nugent;Vanessah Lou Rhodus;Tony Pham;Katherine Forrest

  • A MOF‐based Ultra‐Strong Acetylene Nano‐trap for Highly Efficient C 2 H 2 /CO 2 Separation

    Zheng Niu;Xili Cui;Tony Pham;Gaurav Verma

  • A Metal–Organic Framework Based Methane Nano‐trap for the Capture of Coal‐Mine Methane

    Zheng Niu;Xili Cui;Xili Cui;Tony Pham;Pui Ching Lan

  • On the Mechanism of Hydrogen Storage in a Metal−Organic Framework Material

    Jonathan L. Belof;Abraham C. Stern;Mohamed Eddaoudi;Brian Space

  • Trace CO2 capture by an ultramicroporous physisorbent with low water affinity

    Soumya Mukherjee;Nivedita Sikdar;Daniel O’Nolan;Douglas M. Franz

  • Reversible Switching between Highly Porous and Nonporous Phases of an Interpenetrated Diamondoid Coordination Network That Exhibits Gate-Opening at Methane Storage Pressures.

    Qing‐Yuan Yang;Prem Lama;Susan Sen;Matteo Lusi

  • Theoretical modeling of interface specific vibrational spectroscopy: methods and applications to aqueous interfaces.

    Angela Perry;Christine Neipert;Brian Space;Preston B Moore

  • Enhanced Gas Uptake in a Microporous Metal-Organic Framework via a Sorbate Induced-Fit Mechanism.

    Mei-Hui Yu;Brian Space;Douglas Franz;Wei Zhou

  • Highly selective adsorption of ethylene over ethane in a MOF featuring the combination of open metal site and π-complexation

    Yiming Zhang;Baiyan Li;Baiyan Li;Rajamani Krishna;Zili Wu

  • Hybrid Ultra‐Microporous Materials for Selective Xenon Adsorption and Separation

    Mona H. Mohamed;Mona H. Mohamed;Sameh K. Elsaidi;Sameh K. Elsaidi;Tony Pham;Katherine A. Forrest

  • Fine Tuning of MOF-505 Analogues To Reduce Low-Pressure Methane Uptake and Enhance Methane Working Capacity.

    Mingxing Zhang;Mingxing Zhang;Wei Zhou;Tony Pham;Katherine A. Forrest

  • Effect of ring rotation upon gas adsorption in SIFSIX-3-M (M = Fe, Ni) pillared square grid networks

    Sameh K. Elsaidi;Mona H. Mohamed;Cory M. Simon;Efrem Braun

  • Hydrophobic pillared square grids for selective removal of CO2 from simulated flue gas

    Sameh K. Elsaidi;Sameh K. Elsaidi;Mona H. Mohamed;Mona H. Mohamed;Herbert T. Schaef;Amrit Kumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Pham
Tony Pham University of South Florida
Katherine A. Forrest
Katherine A. Forrest University of South Florida
Michael J. Zaworotko
Michael J. Zaworotko University of Limerick
Juergen Eckert
Juergen Eckert University of South Florida
Shengqian Ma
Shengqian Ma University of North Texas
Lukasz Wojtas
Lukasz Wojtas University of South Florida
Mohamed Eddaoudi
Mohamed Eddaoudi King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Praveen K. Thallapally
Praveen K. Thallapally Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Qingyuan Yang
Qingyuan Yang Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Rajamani Krishna
Rajamani Krishna University of Amsterdam

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