Michael J. Zaworotko
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Michael J. Zaworotko
The author presented on this page has published more than 10 articles in Angewandte Chemie in the last 10 years, most recently:
“Reversible Switching between Highly Porous and Nonporous Phases of an Interpenetrated Diamondoid Coordination Network That Exhibits Gate-Opening at Methane Storage Pressures”: Q.-Y. Yang et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5684; Angew. Chem. 2018, 130, 5786.
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Date of birth:
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August 14, 1956
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Position:
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Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering, University of Limerick
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E-mail:
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Homepage:
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ORCID:
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0000-0002-1360-540X
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Education:
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1977 Undergraduate degree, Imperial College London
1983 PhD supervised by Jerry L. Atwood, University of Alabama
1982–1985 Postdoctoral position with Stephen R. Stobart, University of Victoria
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Awards:
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2017 Science Foundation of Ireland Researcher of the Year
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Current research interests:
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Fundamental and applied aspects of crystal engineering with particular emphasis upon porous materials (e.g., MOFs and hybrid ultramicroporous materials) and multicomponent molecular materials (e.g., pharmaceutical cocrystals)
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Hobbies:
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If only time permitted!
The most important thing I learned from my parents is integrity.
My favorite place on earth is any Hawaiian island except Oahu.
My most exciting discovery to date has been learning that the right pore size and the right pore chemistry affords special properties.
My worst nightmare is having to going back to school and take exams again.
The best advice I have ever been given is that the title and abstract are the most important parts of a paper or proposal.
If I could go back in time and do any experiment, it would be to have first studied gas adsorption in 1995 instead of 2007.
I can never resist temptation (apologies to devotees of Oscar Wilde).
I celebrate success by going on a pub night with my group.
My top three films of all time are Cloud Atlas, Dr. Strangelove, The Matrix.
My favorite food is anything with chili peppers, such as Mexican, Thai, Indian, Sichuan, Irish-Mex (e.g., Irish stew with chili peppers).
My favorite saying is a very, very small piece of something very large is infinitely better than all of nothing.
The most significant scientific advance of the last 100 years has been molecular biology enabled by structural biochemistry.
