Department of Chemistry Seminar

"Storing Hydrogen & Capturing Carbon Dioxide" with Adam J. Matzger

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry's Seminar Series continues with University of Michigan's Adam J. Matzger, with presentation entitled, "Storing Hydrogen & Capturing Carbon Dioxide." His current research interests focus on organic materials in the solid state ranging from crystalline polymorphs to porous materials. One-thirtieth of an ounce of the saltlike zinc-oxide crystal that Matzger developed has enough surface area to cover an entire football field. Scientists say that highly porous materials like this could eventually store hydrogen for cars, pull planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the air and remove noxious sulfur compounds from hydrocarbon fuels. Matzger's talk deals with recent advances from his lab in tunable organic adsorbents called microporous coordination polymers (MCPs) which, like his zinc-oxide crystals, may also have a wide variety of environmental, industrial, laboratory, and consumer applications.