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Randall Snurr

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John G. Searle Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Northwestern University

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Kay Severin @kay-severin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Faculty position in our institute @EPFL: www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
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bai.group @bai.group · 24/02/2026
Excited to share that I'm co-hosting a 4‑day Mol Sim Workshop with RASPA at UMass Amherst, June 15–18, 2026, with David Dubbeldam, @randallsnurr.bsky.social, Sofia Calero, Thijs Vlugt, Zhao Li, Youri Ran. Full program (iraspa.org/workshops/us...) and registration (r.bai.group/raspa-worksh...).
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I'm very excited to be part of this new project led by Wendy Queen @lfim-epfl.bsky.social and Kumar Varoon Agrawal.
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Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy @trienensinst.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Applications for the Northwestern Sustainability and Energy Fellowships are now open through January 2026. Learn more at trienens-institute.northwestern.edu/research/ene... #ClimateTech #Sustainability #PostDocOpportunity
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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 08/10/2025
Last bit of MOF stuff for the day… this is one of my very favourite cover lines from back when I was the Chief Ed of @natchem.nature.com… - was incredibly fitting for the paper too (rdcu.be/eJ4zt by @randallsnurr.bsky.social and co-workers) #chemsky 🧪
The cover of the Feb 2012 issue of Nature Chemistry. A series of connectors in various colours are connected with short straight rods. Off to the side is a pile of different coloured connectors. The main cover line is: Every MOF you make.
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Digital Discovery @digital-discovery.rsc.org · 01/08/2025
In our latest featured article, Wang, Snurr et al. review the wide range of approaches to the use of generative AI in designing porous materials, and offer a perspective on incorporating these tools with experimental work. doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...
A graphical summary of the manuscript.
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This new review article was led by high school student Evan Xie and Xijun Wang. Also with Ilja Siepmann and Haoyuan Chen @chemchen.bsky.social. I think it's a timely review of powerful new tools in a rapidly growing research area. doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...
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Generative AI for design of nanoporous materials: review and future prospects
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a powerful tool for advancing the design of nanoporous materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent–organic frameworks, and zeolites. The...
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
New paper led by Kunhuan Liu as the last part of his PhD, looking at the effect of topology on H2 adsorption in MOFs.
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Latest paper in from Zhao Li, along with Ilja Siepmann and undergrad Jake Turner. I continue to learn more about adsorption hysteresis and how useful TMMC simulations can be.
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
There is a lot in this paper beyond just an updated set of MOF structures. For example, we introduce a new version of MOFid that should be more useful for ML and data analytics. Check it out.
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
New paper w/ Goncalves, Chen, Chapman, Hupp on materials for room-T H2 storage. We don't claim these materials are ready for practical application, but I hope the ideas in the paper might inspire other people working on this difficult and long-standing problem. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Experimental and theoretical investigation of hydrogen sorption by SnO2 nanostructures in a metal–organic framework scaffold
SnO2 nanostructures decorated with Pd clusters were installed in the porous metal–organic framework (MOF) material NU-1000 and investigated as hydrogen storage materials. The proposed concept is to...
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FX Coudert @nanoporous.net · 05/05/2025
The latest CoRE MOF database version is out! A curated experimental MOF database with machine-learned properties for integrated material-process screening, published in @cp-matter.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
CoRE MOF logo
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
A beautiful Spring day at Northwestern!
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Early registration for the Diffusion Fundamentals conference ends April 1st. Registration includes breakfast and lunch every day, refreshments during the poster session, and the conference dinner. Also, just announced: pre-dinner talk by Julio Ottino! diffusionfundamentals11.org
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Abstract deadline for Diffusion Fundamentals XI "Spreading in Nature, Society and Technology" is this Friday, February 28! Come join us on the shores of Lake Michigan for 3 days of interdisciplinary talks and posters on all things diffusion. diffusionfundamentals11.org
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Nice new work from Thang Pham, expanding our understanding of genetic algorithms to optimize MOFs for CO2 capture.
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Abstract deadline for Diffusion Fundamentals XI extended to February 28! Come hear invited talks by Alberto Striolo and Eric Vanden-Eijnden (among others). diffusionfundamentals11.org
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Nice new work from Courtney Smoljan, Filip Formalik, Omar Farha, and team. Wasn't sure if journal would let us use this title!
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Looking forward to these health-related talks at the Diffusion Fundamentals XI conference this summer: Dirk Brockmann on spatial dynamics and the Covid-19 pandemic and Sabina Hrabetova on using diffusion to study the brain’s extracellular space. Abstracts due Feb 15! diffusionfundamentals11.org
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It was fun thinking about opportunities ahead for the field of chemical engineering for the first anniversary issue of @natchemeng.bsky.social rdcu.be/d7O59
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Exploring the potential landscape of chemical engineering science
Nature Chemical Engineering - As part of the first anniversary issue of Nature Chemical Engineering, we present a collection of opinions from 40 researchers within the field on what they think are...
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Happy to announce that Dorit Brixius (@tudresden.bsky.social) will give a Keynote at the Diffusion Fundamentals conference on "The Danger of Diffusion Models in the History of Global Science." Conference is June 30 - July 2. Join us! Abstracts due February 15. diffusionfundamentals11.org
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Very happy to have Stefano Brandani as a Keynote Lecturer at the Diffusion Fundamentals XI conference. He'll speak on "The Ruthven number: An essential quantity in determining diffusion coefficients in nanoporous materials using uptake experiments." Abstracts due Feb 15. diffusionfundamentals11.org
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I have a visitor outside my office window!
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Abstract submission is now open for the Diffusion Fundamentals XI Conference "Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society." diffusionfundamentals11.org Please submit your one-page abstract for an oral or poster presentation as a pdf by February 15: bit.ly/40dtkr1
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Carbon capture on the front page of @nytimes.com today. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/c...
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The New Climate Gold Rush: Scrubbing Carbon From the Sky
Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
In this new paper in ACS Catalysis, XijunWang, @kaihangs.bsky.social, and Anyang Peng tackle some of the challenges in modeling supported amorphous metal oxide nanoclusters for methane activation. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Computational Chemistry and Machine Learning-Assisted Screening of Supported Amorphous Metal Oxide Nanoclusters for Methane Activation
Activating the C–H bond in methane represents a cornerstone challenge in catalytic research. While several supported metal oxide nanoclusters (MeO-NCs) have shown promise for this reaction, their opti...
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As my first post on @bsky.app, I'm happy to announce the publication of a paper describing the new (very fast!) GPU version of our RASPA simulation code, gRASPA. Congratulations to Zhao Li and the team!
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