Department of Chemistry
Omar K. Farha is an associate professor of chemistry at Northwestern University, Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University, president of NuMat Technologies, and Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
His accomplishments have been recognized by several awards including the RSC “Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Early Career” Award; the ACS “The Satinder Ahuja Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science; and an award established by the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University: the Omar Farha Award for Research Leadership. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and was named a “Highly Cited Researcher” in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Website: http://sites.northwestern.edu/omarkfarha/
Synthesis of stable dodecaalkoxy derivatives of hypercloso-B12H12.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Dec, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16366578
Synthesis and evaluation of transthyretin amyloidosis inhibitors containing carborane pharmacophores.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Mar, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17360344
Alkoxy derivatives of dodecaborate: discrete nanomolecular ions with tunable pseudometallic properties.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) , 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17385783
Synthesis and hydrogen sorption properties of carborane based metal-organic framework materials.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17900124
Separating solids: purification of metal-organic framework materials.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jul, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18549210
Carborane-based metal-organic frameworks as highly selective sorbents for CO(2) over methane.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Sep, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18802507
An example of node-based postassembly elaboration of a hydrogen-sorbing, metal-organic framework material.
Inorganic chemistry Nov, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18928272
Supercritical processing as a route to high internal surface areas and permanent microporosity in metal-organic framework materials.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jan, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19108683
A catalytically active, permanently microporous MOF with metalloporphyrin struts.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Apr, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19271705
Post-synthesis alkoxide formation within metal-organic framework materials: a strategy for incorporating highly coordinatively unsaturated metal ions.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Mar, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19292487
Gas-sorption properties of cobalt(II)--carborane-based coordination polymers as a function of morphology.
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Aug, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19367598
Metal-organic framework materials as catalysts.
Chemical Society reviews May, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19384447
A Zn-based, pillared paddlewheel MOF containing free carboxylic acids via covalent post-synthesis elaboration.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Jul, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19557260
Selective bifunctional modification of a non-catenated metal-organic framework material via "click" chemistry.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Sep, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19736982
Synthesis and gas sorption properties of a metal-azolium framework (MAF) material.
Inorganic chemistry Nov, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19813724
An interpenetrated framework material with hysteretic CO(2) uptake.
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Jan, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 19918820
Control over catenation in metal-organic frameworks via rational design of the organic building block.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jan, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20039671
Chemical reduction of a diimide based porous polymer for selective uptake of carbon dioxide versus methane.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Feb, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20126711
Ni(III)/(IV) bis(dicarbollide) as a fast, noncorrosive redox shuttle for dye-sensitized solar cells.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Apr, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20230034
Separation of gas mixtures using Co(II) carborane-based porous coordination polymers.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) May, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20405064
Electronic tuning of nickel-based bis(dicarbollide) redox shuttles in dye-sensitized solar cells.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) Jul, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20586090
Rational design, synthesis, purification, and activation of metal-organic framework materials.
Accounts of chemical research Aug, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20608672
De novo synthesis of a metal-organic framework material featuring ultrahigh surface area and gas storage capacities.
Nature chemistry Nov, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20966950
A convenient route to high area, nanoparticulate TiO2 photoelectrodes suitable for high-efficiency energy conversion in dye-sensitized solar cells.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids Mar, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21250741
Selective surface and near-surface modification of a noncatenated, catalytically active metal-organic framework material based on Mn(salen) struts.
Inorganic chemistry Apr, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21381644
Kinetic separation of propene and propane in metal-organic frameworks: controlling diffusion rates in plate-shaped crystals via tuning of pore apertures and crystallite aspect ratios.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Apr, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21417272
Active-site-accessible, porphyrinic metal-organic framework materials.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Apr, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21446651
Post-synthesis modification of a metal-organic framework to form metallosalen-containing MOF materials.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Aug, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21770411
Luminescent infinite coordination polymer materials from metal-terpyridine ligation.
Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) Sep, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21822519
Fabrication of metal-organic framework-containing silica-colloidal crystals for vapor sensing.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Oct, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21858878
Light-harvesting metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): efficient strut-to-strut energy transfer in bodipy and porphyrin-based MOFs.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Oct, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21916479
Metal-organic framework materials as chemical sensors.
Chemical reviews Feb, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22070233
Coordination-chemistry control of proton conductivity in the iconic metal-organic framework material HKUST-1.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jan, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22148287
Metal-adeninate vertices for the construction of an exceptionally porous metal-organic framework.
Nature communications , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22215079
High propene/propane selectivity in isostructural metal-organic frameworks with high densities of open metal sites.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) Feb, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22250050
Large-scale screening of hypothetical metal-organic frameworks.
Nature chemistry Feb, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22270624
Urea metal-organic frameworks as effective and size-selective hydrogen-bond catalysts.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Feb, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22296523
Imparting functionality to a metal-organic framework material by controlled nanoparticle encapsulation.
Nature chemistry Apr, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22437717
Designing higher surface area metal-organic frameworks: are triple bonds better than phenyls?
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jun, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22670563
Engineering ZIF-8 thin films for hybrid MOF-based devices.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Aug, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22718482
Fast transporting ZnO-TiO2 coaxial photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells based on ALD-modified SiO2 aerogel frameworks.
ACS nano Jul, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22721529
Metal-organic framework materials with ultrahigh surface areas: is the sky the limit?
Journal of the American Chemical Society Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22906112
Understanding excess uptake maxima for hydrogen adsorption isotherms in frameworks with rht topology.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Nov, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22992582
Incorporation of an A1/A2-difunctionalized pillar[5]arene into a metal-organic framework.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Oct, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23025413
Opening ZIF-8: a catalytically active zeolitic imidazolate framework of sodalite topology with unsubstituted linkers.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Nov, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23088345
Effective panchromatic sensitization of electrochemical solar cells: strategy and organizational rules for spatial separation of complementary light harvesters on high-area photoelectrodes.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Dec, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23130681
Effects of adsorbed pyridine derivatives and ultrathin atomic-layer-deposited alumina coatings on the conduction band-edge energy of TiO2 and on redox-shuttle-derived dark currents.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23244696
Light-harvesting and ultrafast energy migration in porphyrin-based metal-organic frameworks.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23249338
Energy transfer from quantum dots to metal-organic frameworks for enhanced light harvesting.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23293894
γ-Cyclodextrin cuprate sandwich-type complexes.
Inorganic chemistry Mar, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23432138
Simultaneously high gravimetric and volumetric methane uptake characteristics of the metal-organic framework NU-111.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Apr, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23459705
Removal of airborne toxic chemicals by porous organic polymers containing metal-catecholates.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Apr, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23463320
Three-dimensional architectures incorporating stereoregular donor-acceptor stacks.
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Jun, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23649830
Selective isolation of gold facilitated by second-sphere coordination with α-cyclodextrin.
Nature communications , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23673640
Vapor-phase metalation by atomic layer deposition in a metal-organic framework.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jul, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23829224
Methane storage in metal-organic frameworks: current records, surprise findings, and challenges.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23841800
An exceptionally high boron content supramolecular cuboctahedron.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Jul, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23863859
Enhanced Catalytic Activity through the Tuning of Micropore Environment and Supercritical CO2 Processing: Al(Porphyrin)-Based Porous Organic Polymers for the Degradation of a Nerve Agent Simulant.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23875620
Dye Stabilization and Enhanced Photoelectrode Wettability in Water-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells through Post-assembly Atomic Layer Deposition of TiO2.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23876134
A facile synthesis of UiO-66, UiO-67 and their derivatives.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24008272
Aromatizing olefin metathesis by ligand isolation inside a metal-organic framework.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Oct, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24047342
Layer-by-layer fabrication of oriented porous thin films based on porphyrin-containing metal-organic frameworks.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Oct, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24127847
A mixed dicarboxylate strut approach to enhancing catalytic activity of a de novo urea derivative of metal-organic framework UiO-67.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Dec, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24132049
Systematic modulation of quantum (electron) tunneling behavior by atomic layer deposition on nanoparticulate SnO2 and TiO2 photoanodes.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Nov, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24148005
Perfluoroalkane functionalization of NU-1000 via solvent-assisted ligand incorporation: synthesis and CO2 adsorption studies.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Nov, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24175709
Simple and compelling biomimetic metal-organic framework catalyst for the degradation of nerve agent simulants.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) Jan, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24273208
Versatile functionalization of the NU-1000 platform by solvent-assisted ligand incorporation.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Feb, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24406797
Solvent-assisted linker exchange: an alternative to the de novo synthesis of unattainable metal-organic frameworks.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24652755
Beyond post-synthesis modification: evolution of metal-organic frameworks via building block replacement.
Chemical Society reviews Jul, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24723093
A metal-organic framework-based material for electrochemical sensing of carbon dioxide.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Jun, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24827031
High-surface-area architectures for improved charge transfer kinetics at the dark electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells.
ACS applied materials & interfaces Jun, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24828106
Defect creation by linker fragmentation in metal-organic frameworks and its effects on gas uptake properties.
Inorganic chemistry Jul, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24903856
SERS of molecules that do not adsorb on Ag surfaces: a metal-organic framework-based functionalization strategy.
The Analyst Aug, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24949495
Are Zr₆-based MOFs water stable? Linker hydrolysis vs. capillary-force-driven channel collapse.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) Aug, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24974960
Fabrication of Transparent-Conducting-Oxide-Coated Inverse Opals as Mesostructured Architectures for Electrocatalysis Applications: A Case Study with NiO.
ACS applied materials & interfaces Aug, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25033088
Real-time observation of atomic layer deposition inhibition: metal oxide growth on self-assembled alkanethiols.
ACS applied materials & interfaces Aug, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25046585
Directed Growth of Electroactive Metal-Organic Framework Thin Films Using Electrophoretic Deposition.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Jul, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25070374
Water-Stable Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Framework Material with High-Surface Area and Gas-Storage Capacities.
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Aug, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25123293
Dynamics of Back Electron Transfer in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Featuring 4-tert-Butyl-Pyridine and Atomic-Layer-Deposited Alumina as Surface Modifiers.
The journal of physical chemistry. B Aug, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25127076
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