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2008-05-12: The Yaghi group's new compound, ZIF 100, as featured in the Royal Society of Chemistry's ...

2008-05-12: Metal Organic Frameworks, first invented in the Yaghi Labs, are now being marketed by BASF and Sold by Aldrich ...

2008-05-11: Colossal Cages in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks as Selective Carbon Dioxide Reserviors, B. Wang, A.P. Côté, H. Furukawa, M. O'Keeffe, O. M. ...

2008-04-18: Jon Stewart from BBC Radio interviews the Yaghi Labs
The BBC Radio Programme Science in Action, which is broadcast globally, interviewed members of the Yaghi labs about their incredible ZIF research.
2008-02-27: The Yaghi Lab's Research Featured on Wired.Com
CO2 - Absorbing Crystals Just the Tip of Iceberg for UCLA Lab
2008-02-15: High-Throughput Synthesis of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks and Application to CO2 ...
R. Banerjee, A. Phan, B. Wang, C. Knobler, H. Furukawa, M. O'Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi, Science, 2008, 319, 939-943.
2008-02-15: Researchers in the Yaghi lab have developed porous materials that can soak up 80 times their volume of carbon ...
The results of the Yaghi researchers in the area of ZIF's, zeolitic imidazolate frameworks published in the new issue of Science Magazine.
2008-02-15: Framework Materials Grab CO2 And Researchers' Attention
ZIFs- 11,12,71,20,21,and 71 pictured here are but a few of the ZIFs developed by Yaghi and his researchers that have the capacity to store huge amounts of CO2 as highlighted by Robert Service in Science magazine.
2008-02-07: 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Science Newcomb Cleveland Prize
The Yaghi lab wins the 2007 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
2008-01-17: COF-105 on the 2007 December cover of C&EN
The Yaghilabs's highly porous organic framework known as COF-105
2007-11-02: Omar Yaghi is the 15th most-cited chemist
according to In-Cites.com
2007-11-01: Metal-Organic Frameworks with Exceptionally High Capacity for Storage of Carbon Dioxide at Room ...
As published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
2007-11-01: Effects of Functionalization, Catenation, and Variation of the Metal Oxide and Organic Linking Units on the Low-Pressure Hydrogen Adsorption Properties of Metal-
As published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
2007-10-02: Omar Yaghi is the 2007 MRS Medal Award Recipient
The MRS Medal is awarded for a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement which has a major impact on the progress of a materials-related field.
2007-09-24: Modular Chemistry: Secondary Building Units as a Basis for the Design of Highly Porous and Robust Metal-Organic Carboxylate Frameworks M. Eddaoudi, D. Moler, H.
Account of Chemical Research reports this article is the journal's number 1 most cited article in 2006 of all the journal's articles published from 1996-the present.
2007-08-23: Nature: Space Invaders
Our research was featured in the Aug. 16, '07 issue of Nature.
2007-08-19: Omar M. Yaghi chosen as one of the Popular Science's "Brilliant 10"
Hydrogen Nano-Architect
2007-06-19: Porous Crystalline Organic Frameworks
As featured in C&EN, the highly porous organic framework known as COF-108.
2007-06-07: "Putting Order into Polymer Networks" Peter M. Budd provides a perspective on the Yaghi group's latest paper published in Science
Organic, three-dimensional microporous structures have been synthesized. Such organic zeolites are light and chemically versatile, offering a range of possible applications.
2007-05-16: Omar Yaghi presented with the 2007 Department of Energy Hydrogen Program R & D ...
Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Frameworks
2007-05-07: Omar Yaghi awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the Council of Scientific Society ...
Metal Organic Reticular Frameworks
2007-04-20: Omar M. Yaghi has been awarded Dean's Recognition Award at UCLA College of Letters and ...
"Crystals of Pores Without Walls for Clean Energy"
2007-04-20: Chemists at UCLA Design the Least Dense Crystals Known to Man for Applications in Clean ...
The image shows the crystal structure of COF-108. Synthesized only from light elements (H,B,C,O) COF-108 is the lowest-density crystal ever produced (0.17 g/cm3).
2007-03-20: Two of the top ten Most-Cited articles of 2006 of the Journal of the American Chemical ...
The Journal of the American Chemical Society has announced its Most-Cited Articles of 2006.
2006-12-14: Omar M. Yaghi has been awarded the 2006 Herbert Newby McCoy Award
The McCoy Award for the Greatest Discovery in Chemistry 2006 has been awarded to Omar Yaghi for the development of new microporous Metal-Organic Framework materials (MOFs) that exhibit exceptional uptake of hydrogen gas.
2006-12-14: Omar Yaghi is #22 in the Top 100 Most-Cited Chemists for 2006

2006-10-27: Reticular Chemistry paper in Acc. chem. Res. is listed as a hot paper

2006-10-16: Hydrogen Sorption in Functionalized MOFs paper in JACS is listed as the hottest JACS ...
In celebration of National Chemistry Week, ACS Publications has listed over 100 current "Hot Papers" as recognized by Thomson ISI®Essential Science Indicators..
2006-10-14: Exceptional H2 Saturation Uptake in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks
The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Letter, April 2006
2006-10-14: USA Today - Here come science's best and brightest: The 'Brilliant 10'
September 12, 2006 - Omar Yaghi, UCLA professor of materials science is featured today in USA Today in a story about Popular Science's "Brilliant 10" scientists and researchers, identified in the October issue of the magazine (First Edition, Life, Page 8D).
2006-10-14: National Nanotechnology Initiative features UCLA professor Omar Yaghi
News about UCLA, University of Michigan Chemists Report Progress in Quest to Use Hydrogen as Fuel for Cars and Electronic Devices is currently featured on the front page of the National Nanotechnology Initiative website.
2005-12-01: Professor Yaghi interviewed by Science Watch
U. Michigan's Omar Yaghi on What's In Store for MOFs
2005-11-05: Learn more about professor Yaghi in an interview
Professor Yaghi interviewed by the University of Michigan News Service
2005-09-15: Framework for H2 Storage, Research News
September 2005 page 15
2005-08-22: Filling Up With Hydrogen
Chemical and Engineering News, August 22, 2005 page 42
2005-03-23: Potential Hydrogen Storage Material
Chemical Week, March 23, 2005 page 21
2004-12-31: Making an Impact on Fuel Cell Technology
University of Michigan Tech Transfer 2004
2004-12-29: Small is beautiful
Science et Vie Vol 229 2004
2004-11-02: U. Michigan's Omar Yaghi on What's In Store for MOFs
Science Watch, Vol. 15, No. 6 November/December 2004, page 5, page 6
2004-11-01: Advances in hydrogen storage materials
Materials Today, November 2004 page 30
2004-10-30: Hydrogen as Fuel? U-M Researchers say It's Ideal
Michigan vs. Michigan State October 30, 2004 Program page 8
2004-05-06: U-M hydrogen-fuel researcher wins project goals
Ann Arbor News, May 6th, 2004, section E, page 1
2004-04-28: Grants to aid fuel cell studies
Detroit Free Press, April 28th, 2004
2004-02-17: Crystals Could End Up as the Fuel Tank of the Future
New York Times, February 17th, 2004, section F, page 3
2004-02-09: Roomy Crystals
Chemical and Engineering News, February 9th, 2004, page 10
2004-02-07: Triangular trick turns crystal into giant store
New Scientist , February 7th, 2004, page 25
2003-11-02: MOFs Point Way to 6% H2 Storage
Fuel Cell Technology News, November, 2003, Materials; Vol. 6, No. 2
2003-08-02: Promise of hydrogen storage
Materials Today, July/August , 2003, page 12
2003-07-02: New materials promising for hydrogen storage
Fuel Cells Bulletin, July, 2003, page 8
2003-06-11: Detailing a Nanoscale Hydrogen Storage System
Chemical Week, June 11th, 2003, page 25
2003-06-02: Ventures Afield
Chemical and Engineering News, June 2nd, 2003, page 13
2003-05-19: Porous Crystals Soak Up Hydrogen
Chemical and Engineering News, May 19th, 2003, page 11
2003-04-25: Angewandte Chemie Cover Picture
Angewandte Chemie, April 25th, 2003, Vol. 115, No. 16
2003-02-28: U.S. Department of Energy Launches a GRAND CHALLENGE for Basic and Applied Research in Hydrogen ...
Physics Today, 2003
2002-12-16: Chemistry Highlights 2002
Chemical and Engineering News, December 16th, 2002, page 44
2002-10-02: Crystals Full of Nothing Cover
Spheres, Fall, 2002, page 4
2002-03-29: Crystal Engineering: from Structure to Function
Science , March 29th, 2002, Vol. 295 page 2410
2002-01-21: Crystal Sponges
Chemical and Engineering News, January 21st , 2002, page 8
2001-06-23: Perfecting Porosity: Better living through holey chemistry
Science News, June 23rd, 2001, Vol. 159 page 398
2001-02-12: Reinforced Porous Crystals
Chemical and Engineering News, February 12th, 2001, page 8
2000-10-02: A molecular world full of holes
Originally printed in Chemical Innovation, October, 2000, page 3
2000-06-15: Design of Solids From Molecular Building Blocks: Golden Opportunities for Solid State ...
Special Issue, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, June, 2000
1999-11-20: Innovative Crystal's Got Plenty o' Nuthin
Science News, November 20th, 1999, Vol. 156 page 327
1999-11-17: Chemists Create the First of a New Class of Catalysts to Handle Big Molecules
First printed in Arizona State University News, Nov. 17, 1999

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