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| 25-Aug-17 | Gérard Férey (1941 - 2017) | |||||
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It is with great sadness that we report the
passing of Professor Gérard Férey, one of the pioneers of metal-organic
framework chemistry. Gérard was born in Normandy in 1941 and
began his scientific career at the University of Le Mans in the 1960s.
Initially, he was a solid-state fluorine chemist but his interest in
microporous materials began with his work on fluorophosphate open framework
solids and his synthesis if the ULM-n
series of compounds, and his pioneering Secondary Building Unit (SBU)
approach
of crystalline porous solids. In 1996 he moved to the University of
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and founded the Institute
Lavoisier de Versailles. It
was here that he began his work on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and
his
laboratory produced some of the most iconic MOFs including the flexible
MIL-53
and MIL-88, and highly porous frameworks such as MIL-100 and MIL-101. Throughout the latter part of his career he
was a strong supporter of the zeolite and MOF communities, and in particular
his efforts to ensure that MOFs became recognised by the IZA. Gérard received many awards during his long career; he was awarded France’s highest scientific honour, the gold medal of the CNRS in 2010, and was inducted into the Ordre National de la Légion d'honneur – France’s highest civil award. Gérard Férey’s legacy and his commitment to the community will be felt by all followers of microporous materials for many years to come. | ||||||
| 15-Aug-17 | News from the Structure Commission | |||||
| Several features have been added to the Database of Zeolite Structures recently. | ||||||
| The origin of the type material name and the derivation of the associated three letter code has been added to the Type Material page. | ||||||
| The number of topologically distinct T-atoms in the idealized framework structure has been added as a search option on the Advanced Search/Channel System page. | ||||||
| The dropdown menus now work on mobile devices as well. | ||||||
| Older framework drawings are being replaced by newer ones as time permits (42 done so far). | ||||||
| 18-Jul-17 | The Structure Commission has approved three new Framework Type Codes | |||||
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-IFT Type material: ITQ-53 SWY Type material: STA-20 EWS Type material: EMM-26 |
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| 23-Jun-17 | 18th IZC meeting report has been posted on the History site of the IZA | |||||
| Prof. Carmine Collela has posted the report of the 18th IZC meeting (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) on the IZA History website (see the Navigation bar to the left). | ||||||
| 21-May-17 | News from the Synthesis Commission | |||||
| The IZA Synthesis Commission has prepared the 3rd Edition of the book “Verified Syntheses of Zeolitic Materials” (ISBN-10: 0-692-68539-1) in order to enlarge the existing collection and to include new materials of interest to the zeolite research community. The introductory articles revealed the most important developments from the last decade associated with synthesis, characterization and application of zeolites. | ||||||
| 21-Mar-17 | News from the Structure Commission | |||||
| The Structure Commission has launched a fully revised version of the Database of Zeolite Structures. We thank Christian Baerlocher and all the colleagues involved in the permanent evolution of the database. |
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| 6-Dec-16 | Avelino Corma receives the 2016 Spiers Memorial Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry | |||||
Prof.
Corma was recognized for the introduction of new concepts for the
synthesis of microporous and mesoporous inorganic materials and their
application in heterogeneous catalysis, which have resulted in an
extensive range of industrial applications. |
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| 31-Oct-16 | The Structure Commission has approved a new Framework Type Code | |||||
| ETL Type material: H-EU-12 | ||||||
| 27-Oct-16 | News from the Structure Commission | |||||
| The Database of
Zeolite Structures has been updated and modernized. The database has been migrated from
FileMaker to MySQL and the
query language changed from xsl to php.
The four university servers have been replaced with three commercial virtual servers (vServers) that are located in Europe, Asia and North America to give a better geographical distribution of service. These three servers will be maintained by Christian Baerlocher and Lynne McCusker (Zurich), Wei Wan and Xiaodong Zou (Stockholm) and Christine Kirschhock and her team (Leuven), respectively. The changes ensure the future of the Database of Zeolite Structures for the next 20 years. This year we are celebrating our 20th year of zeolite structures on the web. For more information on the history, click here. On behalf of the whole zeolite community, we thank all the colleagues involved in the constant evolution of this indispensable tool! |
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| 15-Sep-16 | New reports from the Natural Zeolite Commission | |||||
| Two new reports concerning the sedimentary zeolite deposits in Armenia and in Iran have been put online in the Natural Zeolite Commission website. | ||||||
| 5-Aug-16 | Russell Morris becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in London | |||||
Prof. R. Morris (University of St Andrews) has been elected as a FRS because
of his important work in porous solids, and in particular for his revolutionary developments in synthesis, such
as the ionothermal and ADOR methods, which have had significant impact across a wide range of chemistry outside
his own field. Morris was also elected for his work in developing new applications of zeolites and metal-organic
frameworks, particularly for the controlled delivery of therapeutic gases for medicine. |
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| News from the IZC-18 in Rio de Janeiro | ||||||
| 30-Jun-16 | IZA Awards | |||||
| The recipients of the 2016 Breck Award are: | ||||||
| Svetlana Mintova and
Valentin Valtchev of the CNRS, Laboratory of Catalysis and Spectrochemistry, Caen, France for the understanding of the nucleation in organic-free hydrogel systems leading to rational design of industrially relevant nanosized zeolites.  |
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| The new IZA Ambassador, the recipient of the 2016
IZA Award is: |
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| Avelino Corma of the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ), Valencia, Spain for outstanding achievements in the synthesis of zeolites and their application as catalysts in petrochemical processes and fine chemicals synthesis.  |
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| IZA Honorary Memberships were given to: |
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| Carmine Colella of the University of Naples, Naples, Italy for contribution given to the IZA through the constitution of the Natural Zeolite Commission, the preservation of the related culture, the update of IZA history and the keeping of IZA archive Michael Stöcker of the SINTEF, Oslo, Norway for co-founding the Journal "Microporous and Mesoporous Materials" and for having supported the culture of zeolite science as Editor-in-Chief of this Journal for many years. |
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| Congratulations! |
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| 29-Jun-16 | IZA Council | |||||
| Seven new Council members were elected: |
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| Martin Hartmann (Germany) Masaiko Matsukata (Japan) Roberto Millini (Italy) Heloise Pastore (Brazil) Fernando Rey (Spain) Matthias Thommes (USA) Xiaodong Zou (Sweden) |
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| The new Executive Committee of the IZA Council is: | ||||||
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Valentin Valtchev, President Suk Bong Hong, Vice-President Heloise Pastore, Secretary Raul Lobo, Treasurer |
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| 28-Jun-16 | International Zeolite Conference (IZC) | |||||
| At the IZA Business Meeting, the IZA membership selected the venue for the 20th IZC in 2022: |
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| Valencia, Spain | ||||||
| The next IZC will be held in 2019 in Perth, Australia | ||||||
| 16-May-16 | Proposals for the organization of the 6th International MOF Meeting | |||||
| The MOF commission of the IZA would like to solicit bids to host the 6th International MOF meeting, which is scheduled to take place in 2018. The deadline for bids will be August 1st, 2016 and the decision will be made during the 5th International MOF meeting to be held in September 2016 in Long Beach California, USA. For further information on what is required for a bid please contact Russell Morris (rem1@st-andrews.ac.uk). | ||||||
| 11-Apr-16 | Newly Elected Academicians | |||||
| The following zeolite scientists were
elected as Academicians in 2015: |
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| Prof. M. Tsapatsis – USA National Academy of Engineering Prof. J. Yu – Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. Z. Liu – Chinese Academy of Engineering |
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| Congratulations from the IZA to our esteemed colleagues! | ||||||
| 17-Mar-16 | Jule Rabo (1924-2016) | |||||
It is with great sadness that we must report that Jule Rabo, one of the pioneers of zeolite science, passed away on March 1, 2016. Dr. Rabo, one of UOP's leading scientists, has a long list of accomplishments, but he is best known for his discovery of the acidic forms of zeolite Y and and for applying them to petroleum catalysis. The catalysts he discovered have formed the basis for the production of motor fuels for almost 60 years. He was a Senior Research Fellow at Union Carbide, later UOP, and continued to consult for the company for many years after his retirement in 1990. He earned wide recognition for his discoveries, and received numerous awards, including, in 1993, the Chemical Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Chemists for pioneering discoveries in zeolite catalysis. He was a generous teacher who shared his knowledge enthusiastically with colleagues and students during his career. He lectured widely on catalysis and surface chemistry at national and international conferences, at universities, catalysis societies and industrial research centers all over the world. He earned more than 60 U.S. patents and authored several dozen articles, studies and books. The zeolite community will continue to enjoy this legacy for many years to come.
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