Jeffrey R. Long

About

Jeffrey R. Long is the C. Judson King Endowed Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on inorganic and materials chemistry, specifically the synthesis of inorganic molecules and higher dimensional solids, with an emphasis on tailoring their chemical and physical properties. His work includes gas storage, molecular separations, catalysis in porous materials, and magnetic and conductive materials. Long's group designs and synthesizes novel inorganic materials and molecules to understand new physical phenomena and develop applications in gas storage, separations, conductivity, catalysis, and magnetism. A major area of his research involves the design and study of metal–organic frameworks—porous, inorganic solids built of metal nodes connected by organic linkers—aimed at applications such as gas storage, molecular separations, catalysis, and battery technologies. His group investigates frameworks with high CO2 separation capacities, polarizing open metal sites, and shape-discriminating pore structures to enhance binding and separation of gases like H2, CH4, and hydrocarbons. Long's research also explores the use of these frameworks in developing membranes for natural gas purification and olefin/paraffin separations. In addition, Long's group studies metal–organic frameworks as catalysts with isolated active sites and explores post-synthetic modifications to create conductive…

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Computer Science
• Physics
• Organic chemistry
• Chemical engineering
• Composite material
• Engineering
• Physical chemistry

Selected publications

• Porous materials for carbon dioxide separations

  Nature Materials · 2021 · 670 citations

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• Ultrahard magnetism from mixed-valence dilanthanide complexes with metal-metal bonding

  Science · 2022 · 575 citations

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  . report that introducing metal-metal bonding can enhance coercivity. Reduction of iodide-bridged terbium or dysprosium dimers resulted in a single electron bond between the metals, which enforced alignment of the other valence electrons. The resultant coercive fields exceeded 14 tesla below 50 and 60 kelvin for the terbium and dysprosium compounds, respectively. —JSY

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• High-temperature carbon dioxide capture in a porous material with terminal zinc hydride sites

  Science · 2024-11-14 · 120 citations

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  Carbon capture can mitigate point-source carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, but hurdles remain that impede the widespread adoption of amine-based technologies. Capturing CO 2 at temperatures closer to those of many industrial exhaust streams (>200°C) is of interest, although metal oxide absorbents that operate at these temperatures typically exhibit sluggish CO 2 absorption kinetics and instability to cycling. Here, we report a porous metal–organic framework featuring terminal zinc hydride sit…

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• High-throughput screening of hypothetical metal-organic frameworks for thermal conductivity

  npj Computational Materials · 2023 · 103 citations

  Abstract Thermal energy management in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is an important, yet often neglected, challenge for many adsorption-based applications such as gas storage and separations. Despite its importance, there is insufficient understanding of the structure-property relationships governing thermal transport in MOFs. To provide a data-driven perspective into these relationships, here we perform large-scale computational screening of thermal conductivity k in MOFs, leveraging classica…

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• Biomimetic O₂ adsorption in an iron metal–organic framework for air separation

  Chemical Science · 2020 · 34 citations

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  selectivity for any iron-based framework.

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Recent grants

• Directed Assembly of Molecular Cluster Magnets

  NSF · $743k · 2006–2011

• Project 2: Conformation and propagation of misfolded forms of tau and Abeta

  NIH · $84.7M · 1997–2026

• A Coordination Chemistry Approach to the Synthesis of Single- Molecule Magnets

  NSF · $712k · 2021–2024

Frequent coauthors

• Christopher R. McNeill

  Monash University

  2916 shared

• Hannah Hamilton

  2916 shared

• Emily A. Carter

  Cornell University

  2916 shared

• Akihiko Kudo

  Tokyo University of Science

  2916 shared

• Shelley D. Minteer

  Missouri University of Science and Technology

  2916 shared

• Xinhe Bao

  Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

  2916 shared

• Sarah Holmes

  University of Hong Kong

  2916 shared

• Michael R. Wasielewski

  Northwestern University

  2916 shared

Labs

• The Long GroupPI

Awards & honors

• Research Corporation Research Innovation Award (1998)
• Hellman Family Faculty Award (1999)
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2000)
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2001-2003)
• Wilson Prize (Harvard University, 2002)

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