Marzena Pander, a PhD student at the University of Wrocław, is shortlisted for the final of the Young Talents 2023 competition in the Scientific Success category. The finalist is a graduate of the master’s degree programme at the Wrocław University, she is completing her doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Chemistry.

The dissertation concerns the design, synthesis and characterisation of porous materials – metal-organic networks (MOF, Metal-Organic Framework), which are a class of porous coordination polymers with interesting and unique properties. Although the first examples of MOF materials were described less than 30 years ago, this field of science is growing rapidly and already includes more than 100,000 different structures.

Thanks to the precise design of organic and inorganic building units, which can be treated like chemical LEGO bricks, it is possible to prepare a virtually unlimited number of new structures, and only the chemist’s imagination can be the limiting factor.

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