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Overview

Timur Islamoglu is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in materials science and chemistry. Their work spans a range of subfields including materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, mechanical engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and process chemistry and technology.

Their research covers several main topics such as:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Membrane Separation and Gas Transport
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science

Timur Islamoglu has contributed to prominent scientific journals including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • ACS Materials Letters

Frequent collaborators in their research include Omar K. Farha, Karam B. Idrees, Florencia A. Son, Randall Q. Snurr, and Haomiao Xie.

Among notable works, the following papers illustrate the scope of their contributions:

  • "Balancing volumetric and gravimetric uptake in highly porous materials for clean energy" (2020, Science)
  • "Metal-Organic Frameworks against Toxic Chemicals" (2020, Chemical Reviews)
  • "A historical perspective on porphyrin-based metal-organic frameworks and their applications" (2020, Coordination Chemistry Reviews)
  • "Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks for the Catalytic Hydrolysis of Organophosphorus Nerve Agents" (2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)
  • "How Reproducible are Surface Areas Calculated from the BET Equation?" (2022, Advanced Materials)

Best Publications

  • Metal–organic frameworks for the removal of toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents

    N. Scott Bobbitt;Matthew L. Mendonca;Ashlee J. Howarth;Timur Islamoglu

  • Postsynthetic Tuning of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Targeted Applications

    Timur Islamoglu;Subhadip Goswami;Zhanyong Li;Ashlee J. Howarth

  • Balancing volumetric and gravimetric uptake in highly porous materials for clean energy

    Zhijie Chen;Penghao Li;Ryther Anderson;Xingjie Wang

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks against Toxic Chemicals

    Timur Islamoglu;Zhijie Chen;Megan C. Wasson;Cassandra T. Buru

  • Room-Temperature Synthesis of UiO-66 and Thermal Modulation of Densities of Defect Sites

    Matthew R. DeStefano;Timur Islamoglu;Sergio J. Garibay;Joseph T. Hupp

  • Reticular chemistry in the rational synthesis of functional zirconium cluster-based MOFs

    Zhijie Chen;Sylvia L. Hanna;Louis R. Redfern;Dalal Alezi

  • Copper(I)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Nanoporous Azo-Linked Polymers: Impact of Textural Properties on Gas Storage and Selective Carbon Dioxide Capture

    Pezhman Arab;Mohammad Gulam Rabbani;Ali Kemal Sekizkardes;Timur İslamoğlu

  • Energy-based descriptors to rapidly predict hydrogen storage in metal–organic frameworks

    Benjamin J. Bucior;N. Scott Bobbitt;Timur Islamoglu;Subhadip Goswami

  • Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks for the Catalytic Hydrolysis of Organophosphorus Nerve Agents.

    Kent O. Kirlikovali;Zhijie Chen;Timur Islamoglu;Joseph T. Hupp

  • A historical perspective on porphyrin-based metal-organic frameworks and their applications.

    Xuan Zhang;Megan C. Wasson;Mohsen Shayan;Ellan K. Berdichevsky

  • How Reproducible are Surface Areas Calculated from the BET Equation?

    Unknown

  • Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks for Organic Pollutant Adsorption

    Riki J. Drout;Lee Robison;Zhijie Chen;Timur Islamoglu

  • Reticular Access to Highly Porous acs-MOFs with Rigid Trigonal Prismatic Linkers for Water Sorption

    Zhijie Chen;Penghao Li;Xuan Zhang;Peng Li;Peng Li

  • Benchmark Study of Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Frameworks under Temperature and Pressure Swing Conditions

    Paula García-Holley;Benjamin Schweitzer;Timur Islamoglu;Yangyang Liu;Yangyang Liu

  • A Flexible Metal–Organic Framework with 4-Connected Zr6 Nodes

    Yuanyuan Zhang;Yuanyuan Zhang;Xuan Zhang;Jiafei Lyu;Ken Ichi Otake

  • Scalable and Template-Free Aqueous Synthesis of Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Framework Coating on Textile Fiber.

    Kaikai Ma;Timur Islamoglu;Zhijie Chen;Peng Li

  • Tuning the Surface Chemistry of Metal Organic Framework Nodes: Proton Topology of the Metal-Oxide-Like Zr6 Nodes of UiO-66 and NU-1000

    Dong Yang;Varinia Bernales;Timur Islamoglu;Omar K. Farha;Omar K. Farha

  • Topology and porosity control of metal–organic frameworks through linker functionalization

    Jiafei Lyu;Xuan Zhang;Ken-ichi Otake;Xingjie Wang

  • Efficient Removal of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Water with Zirconium-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks

    Rui Li;Shefa Alomari;Robert Stanton;Megan C. Wasson

  • A porous, electrically conductive hexa-zirconium(IV) metal–organic framework

    Subhadip Goswami;Debmalya Ray;Ken Ichi Otake;Chung Wei Kung

  • Benign by Design: Green and Scalable Synthesis of Zirconium UiO-Metal–Organic Frameworks by Water-Assisted Mechanochemistry

    Bahar Karadeniz;Ashlee J. Howarth;Ashlee J. Howarth;Tomislav Stolar;Timur Islamoglu

  • Revisiting the structural homogeneity of NU-1000, a Zr-based metal-organic framework

    Timur Islamoglu;Ken Ichi Otake;Peng Li;Cassandra T. Buru

  • Computer-aided discovery of a metal–organic framework with superior oxygen uptake

    Peyman Z. Moghadam;Timur Islamoglu;Subhadip Goswami;Jason Exley

  • Highly Selective CO2 Capture by Triazine-Based Benzimidazole-Linked Polymers

    Ali Kemal Sekizkardes;Suha Altarawneh;Zafer Kahveci;Timur İslamoğlu

Frequent Co-Authors

Omar K. Farha
Omar K. Farha Northwestern University
Zhijie Chen
Zhijie Chen Zhejiang University
Joseph T. Hupp
Joseph T. Hupp Northwestern University
Peng Li
Peng Li Fudan University
Randall Q. Snurr
Randall Q. Snurr Northwestern University
J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University
Gregory W. Peterson
Gregory W. Peterson United States Army Research Laboratory
Christopher J. Cramer
Christopher J. Cramer UL Research Institutes
Selim Alayoglu
Selim Alayoglu Northwestern University
Laura Gagliardi
Laura Gagliardi University of Chicago

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