Jeffrey R. Long

Jeffrey Long creates molecules and materials of potential importance to the mitigation of environmental pollutants, the reduction of energy usage, and the development of renewable energy sources. In particular, his research is devoted to generating new porous solids, including metal-organic frameworks, that possess internal surfaces functionalized with a variety of chemical species to enable their use in gas storage and separation applications. Examples of his successes include the development of materials that can: boost the capacity within the fuel tank of a hydrogen car, efficiently remove carbon dioxide from the flue gases of fossil fuel-burning power plants, separate ethylene from ethane at high temperatures, extract oxygen from air at near ambient temperatures, and fractionate hydrocarbon molecules according to the degree of branching for use in the production of high-octane gasoline with reduced hazardous aromatic content. In addition, he has a long-standing research program on the synthesis of molecular magnets of potential interest for high-density information storage.