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Congratulations to Idan for receiving the 2022 ICS Excellent Young Scientist Prize! Idan won the award for designing MOF-based platforms that manipulate heterogeneous electrocatalysis at the molecular-level through secondary-sphere interactions.

Congratulations to Idan for receiving the prestigious Toronto prize of young researchers for excellence and creativity in scientific research!

Congrats to our Ph.D. student Ran Shimoni for receiving the Dean’s award for excellence!

Well done!

Congrats to our Ph.D. student Itamar Liberman for receiving the Rector’s award for excellence!

Well deserved!

Congrats to our Ph.D. candidate Raya Ifraemov for publishing a research article in Solar RRL and being selected as the editor’s choice!

In this work we show that a CoTCPP-based MOF, Co-MOF-525, can produce CH₄, an 8e⁻/8H⁺ CO₂ reduction product when the light illumination is added during electrochemical operation, reaching an FE of ≈14% at −0.49 V_NHE. Electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical analysis revealed that under illumination, a large concentration of holes are accumulated, in the form of oxidized [Co(III)TCPP]⁺ species. In turn, this [Co(III)TCPP]⁺ species can bind CO favorably, thus stabilizing it for further electroreduction to CH₄.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/solr.202201068

Congrats to our M.Sc. student Shahar Binyamin for receiving the KKL-JNF Climate award.

Well deserved!

Welcome to our new Postdoctoral Fellow Arnab Ghatak.

We wish you Good Luck and fruitfull research!

Congrats to Ran Shimini and Raya Ifraemov for receiving the Ph.D. Adama Award for Excellence in Research and Itamar Liberman for receiving a diploma of excellence for achievements in studies and research in Ph.D.

Well deserved!

Congrats to our Ph.D. students Itamar Liberman and Ran Shimini for receiving the KKL-JNF Climate Scholarship!

Well deserved!

Congrats to our Ph.D. candidate Ran Shimoni for publishing a research article in the VIP section in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.!

This work shows that the electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction performance of a Fe-Porphyrin (Hemin)-based MOF could be precisely tuned via electrostatic secondary-sphere interactions. This concept provides a new perspective on MOF’s capability of controlling the local chemical environment surrounding a catalytically active site.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ange.202206085

Welcome to our new MSc students: Elinor Slavsky and Rotem Balilty.

We wish you Good Luck and fruitfull research!

Congrats to our Ph.D. candidate Raya Ifraemov and Dr. Subhabrata Mukhopadhyay for publishing a perspective review in JPCC!

The Perspective summarizes the recent developments in the field of MOF-based photoelectrochemical cells for solar fuel generation, and our view on the field’s current challenges and future goals.

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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c00671

Congrats to our Ph.D. Itamar Liberman on the new publication in Advanced Functional Materials!

This work presents the development of a new method for spatially confined electrosynthesis and subsequent electrochemical characterization of MOF micropatterns using scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). The SECM was utilized for electrosynthesis of two types of MOFs, Al₂(OH)₂-TCPP, and HKUST-1, and for investigation of their electrocatalytic activity toward hydrogen evolution reaction.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.202112517

Welcome to our new Post Doctoral fellow Dr. Shive Shanker Golla!

We wish you Good Luck and Fruitful research!

After a long Corona period, we finally gathered for some good food and drinks.

Cheers!

Congratulations to Idan for receiving the prestigious Krill Prize for excellence in scientific research!

Idan won the award for the development of innovative conductive materials such as metal-organic frames and their use for capturing and storing solar energy, coating electrodes, and accelerating chemical reactions.

Congrats our Undergraduate Student Shachar Bnemeen Keren on receiving the department head prize.

Well done!

Congrats to our PhD student Itamar Liberman on receiving the Dean prize for excellent M.Sc. Students.

Well deserved!

Congrats to our postdoc Subhabrata Mukhopadhyay on the new publication in Angewandte Chemie!

The work presents the utilization of a MOF as a porous membrane assembled on top of a solid CO₂ reduction electrocatalyst. The MOF-membrane tunes the chemical environment around the catalytically active site and stabilizes the catalytic intermediates via secondary-sphere interactions, leading to improved catalytic activity and product selectivity. 

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KXBMNXKHQZUE2VNHNYB8?target=10.1002/anie.202102320

Our new Chemistry building at BGU is almost ready!

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Idan was awarded with the ERC starting grant! We greatly appreciate the support from the European Research Council!