Professor Jeffrey Long

Winner: 2020 Ludwig Mond Award

University of California, Berkeley

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Professor Jeffrey Long

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Jeffrey R. Long is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at 乐天堂app下载 University of California, Berkeley and a Faculty Senior Scientist in 乐天堂app下载 Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He served as Chair of 乐天堂app下载 Division of Inorganic Chemistry of 乐天堂app下载 American Chemical Society in 2012 and as a founding Associate Editor of 乐天堂app下载 journal Chemical Science, and he is presently Director of 乐天堂app下载 Center for Gas Separations, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by 乐天堂app下载 Department of Energy.

He co-founded and directs two companies: Mosaic Materials, which is developing metal-organic frameworks for low-energy gas separations, and Flux Technology, which is producing high-performance polymer membranes for gas purification. His 330 publications have received more than 67,000 citations, and his recent awards include election to 乐天堂app下载 American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 乐天堂app下载 2019 American Chemical Society F. Albert Cotton Award in Syn乐天堂app下载tic Inorganic Chemistry.

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