Dr Marco Taddei

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24/09/2020: Today I start teaching my Stoichiometry classes, which are part of the General Chemistry course for 1^st year students. I am very excited, because I believe that General Chemistry is the most important topic for a chemist, and I hope to be able to help the students to start off their journey with the right foot.

15/05/2020: New paper out in Inorganic Chemistry: "Influence of Water in the Synthesis of the Zirconium-Based Metal–Organic Framework UiO-66: Isolation and Reactivity of [ZrCl(OH)₂(DMF)₂]Cl". This is based on work I did during the last stretch of my experience at Paul Scherrer Institut, which dates back to 2016. It took quite some time to get it out, but now I am very happy to finally have it published. Read it here. Preprint available here.

12/03/2020: The paper entitled "Recycling Carbon: An Outreach Activity Designed to Introduce the General Public to Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage", has been uploaded to ChemRxiv and is freely accessible. The paper reports our experience with the outreach project Recycling Carbon (for more info see the Outreach section). Read it here.

20/01/2020: I am excited to have officially started my new job as Assistant Professor at the University of Pisa. Last months have been very busy with the transition to this new position, but things have now settled and I am looking forward to contributing to the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry with both my research and teaching in the area of General and Inorganic Chemistry.

29/09/2019: The outreach booklet "Recycling Carbon - An illustrated story" is finally ready! My wife and I have been working on it over the last few months and she has  done an amazing work with the illustrations. The booklet can be viewed and downloaded in the Outreach section.

19/09/2019: On the 24th of September, Stephen and I will attend the 2^nd European Workshop on Metal Phosphonate Chemistry in Berlin. Stephen will present a poster, while I will be giving an invited talk on metal phosphonates and CO₂ capture.

05/09/2019: Our contribution to the Special Issue Functional Coordination Polymers and Metal–Organic Frameworks in Inorganics of the journal Inorganics has been published: "An Optimised Compaction Process for Zr-Fumarate (MOF-801)". This paper stems from the results obtained during a group project that involved six Master students. Read it here.

19/08/2019: New paper, entitled "Band gap modulation of zirconium-based metal-organic frameworks by defect engineering" is just accepted in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A! It is the result of a successful collaboration with other ESRI members, Imperial College London and University College Cork. I am especially proud of this paper, as it is going to be featured in the "2019 Emerging Investigators" Themed Issue. Read it here. Preprint available here.

15/08/2019: Latest paper, entitled "Investigating the effect of positional isomerism on the assembly of zirconium phosphonates based on tritopic linkers", is out in Dalton Transactions. PhD student Stephen from ESRI contributed to the synthesis and characterisation of the linker. The paper will be part of a Special Issue in honour of Prof Abraham Clearfield, pioneer of metal phosphonate chemistry. Read it here. Preprint available here.

08/06/2019: Louise's paper, entitled "Epoxy-cross-linked Polyamine CO₂ Sorbents Enhanced via Hydrophobic Functionalization" has been accepted in the journal Chemistry of Materials. I am very glad to have been involved in this brilliant work, contributing with some gas sorption analysis and discussion. Read it here.

24/05/2019: Our perspective article entitled "New directions in metal phosphonate and phosphinate chemistry" has been published in the journal Crystals. It is a collective article coauthored by all the speakers of the 1^st European Workshop on Metal Phosphonates Chemistry and provides an overview of the topics discussed during the workshop. This is also the first publication for PhD student Stephen Shearan. We hope it will become an important reference for people working in the field of metal phosphonates and phosphinates. Read it here.

05/05/2019: Matthew, Enrico and myself are attending the 2019 Gordon Research Conference on carbon capture, utilisation and storage in Les Diablerets (CH).

19/02/2019: Our article "A new approach to enhancing the CO₂ capture performance of defective UiO-66 via post-synthetic defect exchange" was just published in the journal Dalton Transactions. Read it here. Preprint available here.