Jarad Mason

Division/Committee: [INOR] Division of Inorganic Chemistry

Division/Committee: [INOR] Division of Inorganic Chemistry

With more than 20% of the world’s electricity currently used for cooling and a growing population demanding more comfortable living conditions amid an ever warming global climate, the need for sustainable cooling technologies is expected to increase dramatically over the next several decades…

olid-state framework materials represent a unique class of solids in which chemists are able to exercise fine control of the crystalline structure through a carefully tuned combination of strong, directional bonding interactions and rigid organic struts…

The design of advanced microporous materials is critical to many biomedical and energy-related technologies that require the efficient storage or transport of small molecules, including drug delivery, bioimaging, and gas separations…

Barocaloric materials—which undergo thermal changes in response to applied hydrostatic pressure—can be used to drive solid-state cooling cycles that offer an environmentally friendly alternative to vapor compression refrigeration…

With structural correlations reminiscent of their parent crystals, molten phases of metal–organic frameworks present the intriguing possibility of using coordination chemistry and reticular synthesis to access network-forming liquids and glasses with unique and tunable structure and properties…

Understanding the factors that govern gas absorption in liquids is critical to the development of high-capacity liquid absorbents for catalysis, electrochemistry, and separations…

Numerous zeolites can be synthesized as colloidal aqueous dispersions of nanoparticles. However, many of these syntheses require the use of a structure directing agent (SDA) for crystallization of a specific topology…

Solid phase-change materials exhibiting barocaloric effects (BCEs)—adiabatic temperature or isothermal entropy changes in a material induced by hydrostatic pressure—have gained considerable interest as of late, presenting barocaloric cooling as a promising alternative to conventional cooling techno…

With more than 20% of the world’s electricity currently used for cooling and a growing population demanding more comfortable living conditions amid an ever warming global climate, the need for sustainable cooling technologies is expected to increase dramatically over the next several decades…

Amphiphilic polymers are regularly used to adsorb to solid nanoparticles and stabilize colloidal dispersions in non-solvents…

With more than 20% of the world’s electricity currently used for cooling and a growing population demanding more comfortable living conditions amid an ever-warming global climate, the need for sustainable cooling technologies is expected to increase dramatically over the next several decades…

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous crystalline solids with the ability to selectively concentrate large quantities of gases…

Vapor-compression based air conditioning has matured over the last century into a highly efficient technology which is essential to modern life. However, the hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants central to this technology are potent greenhouse gases—one to five thousand times more effective than CO2…

Abstract: Two-dimensional (2-D) metal–halide perovskites containing first-row transition metals and long-chain organic cations have been explored for thermal energy storage and, recently, for solid-state barocaloric cooling…

Pressure-induced thermal changes in solids—barocaloric effects—offer promise for creating solid-state refrigerants as alternatives to conventional volatile refrigerants…

With most of the primary energy generation in the USA being thermal in nature and the majority of energy being wasted thermally, developing materials to reversibly store thermal energy is critical to more efficiently using and managing thermal energy…

Proteins have advanced catalytic and structural features that are unsurpassed by even their most sophisticated synthetic counterparts. However, their inherent instability in non-natural environments makes it difficult to harness proteins as building blocks for functional materials…

Nanohybrid systems consisting of semiconductor quantum dots and closely associated or covalently bound organic chromophores can exhibit exciting phenomena—such as Förster-type energy transfer—which have proved useful for expanding the color range in emissive displays and improving the efficiency of…

Water possesses numerous properties (including high biocompatibility, ionic solubility, and availability) that make it attractive and indispensable for many biological and industrial applications…

The tunability of metal-organic frameworks offers the possibility of designing powerful new materials that selectively adsorb and release gas molecules in a cooperative, switch-like manner…

Nanohybrid systems consisting of semiconductor quantum dots and closely associated or covalently bound organic chromophores can exhibit exciting phenomena—such as Förster-type energy transfer—which have proved useful for expanding the color range in emissive displays and improving the efficiency of…

Water possesses numerous properties (including high biocompatibility, ionic solubility, and availability) that make it attractive and indispensable for many biological and industrial applications…

The tunability of metal-organic frameworks offers the possibility of designing powerful new materials that selectively adsorb and release gas molecules in a cooperative, switch-like manner…

Recently it has been shown that the gas capacity of aqueous solutions can be vastly increased by suspending nanocrystals of porous materials, such as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and zeolites, and these solutions have been termed microporous water…

Oxygen storage materials are critical for numerous applications in medical and industrial settings. Traditional oxygen storage materials require high pressures or low temperatures to achieve high oxygen storage densities…

Nature provides a powerful paradigm for oxygen binding in the form of myoglobin and hemoglobin. We aim to adapt this paradigm to create materials for oxygen storage at room temperature for navy divers and other individuals in the underwater environment…

Transport and storage of gas in water is central to many biological processes and in sustainable energy generation such as fuel cells and acid gas separation. However, there exist inherent limitations in utilizing aqueous media in biomedical and energy applications due to its low gas solubility…

The efficient transport of gas molecules through aqueous fluids is essential to sustain life, but the low solubility of nearly all gases in water imposes fundamental limitations on many biomedical technologies that can be difficult to overcome…

Commercializable solutions to many important global challenges, including capturing industrial pollutants, synthesizing mRNA & antibody therapeutics, and developing better treatments for cardiovascular emergencies, often rely on the transport of gases in water…

Materials with layered structures containing bilayers of aligned alkyl chains have shown considerable promise for thermal applications like thermal energy storage and solid-state barocaloric cooling…

The high gas capacities of microporous solids have been extended to the liquid phase through the development of permanently porous liquids that rely on steric exclusion of bulky solvent molecules from pore openings to maintain gas-accessible porosity…

Owing to their inherent atomic precision, atomically precise nanoclusters (NCs) can enable robust structure-property relationships between nanoparticle phenomena and NC structures determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction…

The efficient transport of gas molecules through aqueous fluids is essential to sustain life, but the low solubility of nearly all gases in water imposes fundamental limitations on many biomedical technologies that can be difficult to overcome…

Efficiently transporting gases through aqueous environments is a major challenge for many energy and biomedical applications owing to the extremely low solubility of nearly all gases in water…

The tunability of metal–organic frameworks offers the possibility of designing powerful new materials that selectively adsorb and release gas molecules in a cooperative, switch-like manner…

Many biological processes are limited by oxygen transport and low oxygen solubility in aqueous media. This limitation has generated significant research into increasing oxygen capacity for biological processes in the design of bioreactors and for artificial blood such as perfluorocarbons…

Spin-crossover (SCO) is a phenomenon that occurs in transition metal complexes that exhibit bistability at a molecular level. The metal undergoes a spin transition from a low-spin to high-spin electronic configuration as a result of an external stimulus…

Porous liquids are an emerging area of research where gas capacity in a liquid can be significantly enhanced by dispersing a nanoscale framework material, such as a metal–organic framework or zeolite, into a solvent…

The solubility of gas in aqueous systems is typically exceptionally low, and as such reactivity involving gaseous substrates often leads to bulk depletion of dissolved gas under reaction conditions…

Conventional cooling technologies rely on refrigerants such as hydrofluorocarbons, which can leak into the atmosphere and engender greenhouse effects thousands of times more potent than that of carbon dioxide…