Joseph Hupp

About

Joseph Hupp is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. His research focuses on making and studying molecular materials and supramolecular assemblies. His work aims to understand fundamental aspects of molecular recognition, directed assembly, light harvesting, directional energy transport, and electron transfer reactivity. Additionally, his research exploits these phenomena to address practical problems such as solar energy conversion, chemical fuel storage and release, chemical sensing, molecular transport, chemical separations, and selective catalysis. Hupp's contributions have been recognized through numerous awards, including the ACS Award in Electrochemistry in 2012, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research has significant implications for advancing energy technologies and understanding molecular interactions at a fundamental level.

Research topics

• Organic chemistry
• Chemistry
• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Metallurgy
• Engineering
• Biochemical engineering
• Inorganic chemistry
• Composite material
• Chemical engineering

Selected publications

• Metal–organic framework (MOF) materials as polymerization catalysts: a review and recent advances

  Chemical Communications · 2020 · 295 citations

  Metal–organic frameworks are versatile materials that provide new opportunities as catalysts in polymerization reactions, including modularity and well-defined structures.

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• Zirconium-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks for the Catalytic Hydrolysis of Organophosphorus Nerve Agents

  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 2020 · 272 citations

  Organophoshorus nerve agents are among the most toxic chemicals known to humans, and because of their unfortunate recent use despite international bans, there is an urgent need to develop materials that can effectively degrade these nerve agents. Within the past decade, zirconium-based metal-organic frameworks (Zr-MOFs) have emerged as a bioinspired class of materials capable of rapidly hydrolyzing these compounds and significantly diminishing their toxicity. Both experimental and computational…

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• Ammonia Capture within Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks: Reversible and Irreversible Uptake

  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 2021 · 72 citations

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  -oxo. Ammonia adsorption occurs via both reversible and irreversible processes. The latter are of particular interest for protection and mitigation. Notably, the unexpected dissociative adsorption occurs only with nodes that have been fully dehydrated and irreversibly structurally distorted via thermal pre-treatment-a finding that is supported by density functional theory calculations. Differentiating and ranking the relative importance of the many modes of adsorption was facilitated, in part, b…

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• Water-enhanced CO2 capture in metal–organic frameworks

  Frontiers in Chemistry · 2025-07-08 · 14 citations

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  CO 2 capture from post-combustion flue gas originating from coal or natural gas power plants, or even from the ambient atmosphere, is a promising strategy to reduce the atmospheric CO 2 concentration and achieve global decarbonization goals. However, the co-existence of water vapor in these sources presents a significant challenge, as water often competes with CO 2 for adsorption sites, thereby diminishing the performance of adsorbent materials. Selectively capturing CO 2 in the presence of mois…

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• Unexpected Impacts of CO ₂ /H ₂ O Adsorption Order on the Mixed-Gas Adsorption Capacity of a Metal–Organic Framework

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025-10-08 · 6 citations

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  Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been examined extensively for CO2 capture, and the influence of water coadsorption on these processes is particularly relevant, as CO2 capture generally occurs in humid gas streams. To investigate CO2/H2O coadsorption, binary adsorption isotherms of CO2 and H2O were measured on MOF-808-TFA (TFA = trifluoroacetic acid). When water was preadsorbed on MOF-808-TFA, and a subsequent CO2 adsorption isotherm was measured, the CO2 adsorption was slightly reduced, as…

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Recent grants

• SusChEM: Integrated Materials and Process Systems Development for Sustainable Carbon Capture

  NSF · $450k · 2016–2020

• CRIF:MU Acquisition of an Integrated Compute Server for Research and Education in Chemistry

  NSF · $338k · 2007–2010

Frequent coauthors

• Omar K. Farha

  Northwestern University

  874 shared

• SonBinh T. Nguyen

  Northwestern University

  157 shared

• Randall Q. Snurr

  Northwestern University

  144 shared

• Amy A. Sarjeant

  Bristol-Myers Squibb (United States)

  118 shared

• Karen L. Mulfort

  Argonne National Laboratory

  97 shared

• Michael J. Pellin

  92 shared

• Alex B. F. Martinson

  90 shared

• Chad A. Mirkin

  Northwestern University

  80 shared

Labs

• The Hupp GroupPI

Awards & honors

• ACS Award in Electrochemistry, 2012
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sc…
• IAPS Award of the Inter-American Photochemical Society, 2007
• David C. Grahame Award, Electrochemical Society, 2007
• Carl Wagner Memorial Award, Electrochemical Society, 2005

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