Michael J. Zaworotko

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Angewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 57, Issue 46 p. 14978-14978 Author ProfileFree Access Michael J. Zaworotko First published: 19 June 2018 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201806413AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract “The most important thing I learned from my parents is integrity. My favorite place on earth is any Hawaiian island except Oahu …” Find out more about Michael J. Zaworotko in his Author Profile. Michael J. Zaworotko The author presented on this page has published more than 10 articles in Angewandte Chemie in the last 10 years, most recently: “Reversible Switching between Highly Porous and Nonporous Phases of an Interpenetrated Diamondoid Coordination Network That Exhibits Gate-Opening at Methane Storage Pressures”: Q.-Y. Yang et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5684; Angew. Chem. 2018, 130, 5786. Date of birth: August 14, 1956 Position: Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering, University of Limerick E-mail: xtal@ul.ie Homepage: www.ul.ie/crystalengineering/michael_zaworotko ORCID: 0000-0002-1360-540X Education: 1977 Undergraduate degree, Imperial College London 1983 PhD supervised by Jerry L. Atwood, University of Alabama 1982–1985 Postdoctoral position with Stephen R. Stobart, University of Victoria Awards: 2017 Science Foundation of Ireland Researcher of the Year Current research interests: Fundamental and applied aspects of crystal engineering with particular emphasis upon porous materials (e.g., MOFs and hybrid ultramicroporous materials) and multicomponent molecular materials (e.g., pharmaceutical cocrystals) Hobbies: If only time permitted! The most important thing I learned from my parents is integrity. My favorite place on earth is any Hawaiian island except Oahu. My most exciting discovery to date has been learning that the right pore size and the right pore chemistry affords special properties. My worst nightmare is having to going back to school and take exams again. The best advice I have ever been given is that the title and abstract are the most important parts of a paper or proposal. If I could go back in time and do any experiment, it would be to have first studied gas adsorption in 1995 instead of 2007. I can never resist temptation (apologies to devotees of Oscar Wilde). I celebrate success by going on a pub night with my group. My top three films of all time are Cloud Atlas, Dr. Strangelove, The Matrix. My favorite food is anything with chili peppers, such as Mexican, Thai, Indian, Sichuan, Irish-Mex (e.g., Irish stew with chili peppers). My favorite saying is a very, very small piece of something very large is infinitely better than all of nothing. The most significant scientific advance of the last 100 years has been molecular biology enabled by structural biochemistry. My 5 top papers: 1“Air and water stable 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium based ionic liquids”: J. S. Wilkes, M. J. Zaworotko, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1992, 965. (Until this paper was published, ionic liquids were a niche area based mainly upon compounds that could not be exposed to moist atmospheres.) 2“Porous Solids by Design: [Zn(4,4’-bpy)2(SiF6)]n⋅xDMF, a Single Framework Octahedral Coordination Polymer with Large Square Channels”: S. Subramanian, M. J. Zaworotko, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1995, 34, 2127; Angew. Chem. 1995, 107, 2295. (A crystal by design and the parent member of pillared square grid networks.) 3“X-ray crystal structure of C6H3(CO2H)3-1,3,5⋅1.5(4,4’-bipy): a ‘super trimesic acid’ chicken-wire grid”: C. V. K. Sharma, M. J. Zaworotko, Chem. Commun. 1996, 2655. (Our first realization that cocrystals are a) amenable to design and b) can be favored over single-component crystals.) 4“Enhanced CO2 Binding Affinity of a High-Uptake rht-type Metal–Organic Framework Decorated with Acylamide Groups”: B. Zheng, J. Bai, J. Duan, L. Wojtas, M. J. Zaworotko, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 748. (Realization that systematic control over pore chemistry profoundly impacts gas-sorption performance.) 5“Porous materials with optimal adsorption thermodynamics and kinetics for CO2 separation”: P. Nugent et al., Nature 2013, 495, 80. (The right combination of pore size and pore chemistry can enable an order-of-magnitude improvement in CO2 capture performance.) Volume57, Issue46November 12, 2018Pages 14978-14978 ReferencesRelatedInformation