Amy Cairns
Contact Information
Department of Chemistry
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, CHE 205A
Tampa, FL 33620-5250
Lab: (813) 974-3008, SCA 436, 438
Email: acairns@mail.usf.edu
Education
- 2004-present: University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Dr. Mohamed Eddaoudi’s research group, SMMARTT
- 2000-2004: B.S. Hon. in Chemistry, Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Professor: Mohamed Eddaoudi
Research Areas
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Metal-Organic Materials (MOMs)
- The design and synthesis of extended MOMs from supermolecular building blocks (SBBs).
- Pillaring as a design strategy: well-known 2D structures are pillared into 3D frameworks using several different pillar strategies to evaluate the effect of pore size on hydrogen uptake and its sorption energies.
Selected Publications:
- Amy J. Cairns, Jason A. Perman, Lukasz Wojtas, Victor Ch. Kravtsov, Mohamed H. Alkordi, Mohamed Eddaoudi, and Michael J. Zaworotko. "Supermolecular Building Blocks (SBBs) and Crystal Design: 12-Connected Open Frameworks Based on a Molecular Cubohemioctahedron." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 1560-1561, 2008.
- Yunling Liu, Jarrod F. Eubank, Amy J. Cairns, Juergen Eckert, Victor Ch. Kravtsov, Ryan Luebke, and Mohamed Eddaoudi. "Assembly of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Based on Indium-Trimer Building Blocks: A Porous MOF with soc Topology and High Hydrogen Storage." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 3278-3283, 2007.
