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Co2 Capturing Materials, Isaac Sanchez
Co2 Capturing Materials, Isaac Sanchez
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021
Greenhouse gas emissions are one of, if not the major cause of global warming. With CO2 emissions rising annually, it is paramount to selectively capture and remove CO2 from flue gas. One method of capturing CO2 gas is via porous materials. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are porous materials which have been explored throughout this research. Two important features of COFs are the base unit linkage types (BULTs) and the functional groups attached to the organic linkers (OLs). The BULT used in this research was a covalent triazine framework (CTF) and the main functional group used in the …
Synthesis Of Transfer Hydrogenation Catalysts Containing Unsymmetrical Bisphosphines, Nora Fritz
Synthesis Of Transfer Hydrogenation Catalysts Containing Unsymmetrical Bisphosphines, Nora Fritz
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021
Asymmetric catalysis, where a metal catalyst is used to transform a substrate into a single enantiomer of product, has become a popular synthetic technique in both academic and industrial settings. An enantiomer is a single molecule with a unique three-dimensional shape with a mirror image not superimposable on the original. The chirality, or right or left-handedness, of compounds lead to applications important in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Commonly, a metal complex’s ability to create a product of a certain enantiomer relies on a chiral group being attached to the metal. However, having the chirality of a metal complex depend …
Conjunction Of Factors Impacting The 2019-2020 Flu Season In The Us, Yichen Wang
Conjunction Of Factors Impacting The 2019-2020 Flu Season In The Us, Yichen Wang
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021
The 2019-2020 flu season is regarded as one of the most serious ones in decades. Previous researchers usually studied the effects of different factors on seasonal flu separately instead of their conjugate impact, so we wanted to find how multiple factors combine to affect the spread of influenza in the 2019-2020 flu season in America. We chose types of virus (A and B), environmental factors (temperature, precipitation, relative humidity), population density, and influenza vaccination status for different age groups which are statewide data containing monthly information from Sep. 2019 to May 2020. By principal component analysis, we could see the …
Anion Removal By Partially Positive Adsorbents, Breanna Dragseth, Matt Desmith, Emily Robinson, Abi Bartlett
Anion Removal By Partially Positive Adsorbents, Breanna Dragseth, Matt Desmith, Emily Robinson, Abi Bartlett
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021
Nitrates and phosphates exist naturally but are present in elevated concentrations in many areas primarily due to agriculture; these elevated concentrations are concerning for human and environmental health. The project considered the ability of four different materials used for adsorption (adsorbents) to adsorb nitrate and phosphate. All adsorbents had a silica base with an amine (NH2) group and were further functionalized with different ligands consisting of an aromatic ring functionalized with electron withdrawing groups, creating a partial positive environment to help attract the anions of interest. We also synthesized control materials to determine how effective our engineered materials are. The …