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Starting in January 2015 as Assistant Professor @ Florida State U.
  I will be an assistant professor at Florida State University (FSU) starting in January 2015. Currently, we are looking for enthusiastic students at all levels (undergraduate, master and graduate) to join our research endeavors as well as postdoctoral scholars. I am seeking people with advanced knowledge of perhaps mathematics and programming. The student can be interested in a master or doctoral degree. If you know or are a good prospective undergraduate or graduate student or postdoc interested in doing anything related to theoretical and computational chemistry & materials science please write to: mendoza@eng.fsu.edu. I am interested in diverse areas including chemical engineering, material sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and computer sciences. For more info about what I do, you can refer them to my websites: The deadlines for the Master and Ph.D. applications are near (middle of December): https://www.eng.fsu.edu/cbe/graduate/ https://www.eng.fsu.edu/cbe/graduate/transition-program.html http://materials.fsu.edu/Ph.D.-in-MS-E http://www.chem.fsu.edu/graduate/pso.php http://www.chem.fsu.edu/graduate/international-lac.php http://www.physics.fsu.edu/grads/ http://www.math.fsu.edu/graduate-general-info/ http://www.cs.fsu.edu/prospective/grad/ https://www.sc.fsu.edu/graduate/overview Best regards, Jose L. |
Publications reach 1821 citations and h-index=9!
 2014/01/01: Publications reaches 1821 citations! The work cited is about material and molecular design,Covalent Organic Frameworks, Metal-Organic Frameworks, materiainformatics, cheminformatics, statistical mechanics, electronic Structure, Molecular Dynamics, Force Field Development, and catalysis. This correspond to the most general fields of Renowable clean energy - Gas storage materials - Photoelectrochemistry - Solid state physics&chemistry - Quantum mech/Stat mech... [More] |
Our paper selected for Models of Metalloenzymes Virtual Issue
 "Inorganic Chemistry and Journal of the American Chemical Society are teaming up to launch a cross-journal inorganic chemistry virtual issue designed to showcase the most significant recent publications in a topical area. In an upcoming virtual issue focused on “Models of Metalloenzymes”, your recent Journal of the American Chemical Society article (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 1073) has been selected as worthy of being highlighted. Your article was selected because of its high scientific quality and broad appeal." William B. Tolman (Editor-in-Chief and Virtual Issue Guest Editor). |
Co-Mentor 4 student Summer Undergraduate Research (SURF)
 Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships program introduces students to research under the guidance of seasoned research mentors at Caltech and JPL. Students experience the process of research as a creative intellectual activity. I have co-mentored 6 undergraduate students in total (and 4 graduate students). What is SURF? Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships program introduces students to research under the guidance of seasoned research mentors at Caltech and JPL. Students experience the process of research as a creative intellectual activity. Presentation Program, SURF link. |
Invited talk - Tenaris University
 This talk covers the fundamentals of bulk porous materials that are constructed from metal-oxides and organic molecules as well as from pure organic molecules. This field is so far developed that companies such as BASF® are producing these materials at the industrial level. In this activity we will learn how the design of the pores can help to trap and store the most gas. This is important because clean energy gases such as H2 and CH4 can be stored more efficiently. Also harmful gases such as NH3 and CO2 can be separated from contaminated mixtures. [RREP sponsors: Tenaris, Ternium, Techint] |
Advisers were named among the world's top three chemists of 2000-2010.
 On February 10, 2011, Thomson Reuters released data identifying the world’s top 100 chemists over the past 11 years as ranked by the impact of their published research. Full List. Science Watch.
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Best Poster in the International Center for Materials Research workshop
 DATES: July 27 - August 9, 2008 LOCATION: University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106 USA The prize included The prize includes International Research Fellowships for 1 - 3 months intership in a lab outside USA, with award amounts for travel and expenses of up to $5000. Only 12-13 fellows a year. The International Center for Materials Research (ICMR) workshop was a two-week summer school on Periodic Structures and Crystal Chemistry in Materials Science from July 27 to August 9, 2007 in UCSB. The emphasis of the school was to introduce newly emerging methods in the description, design and geometrical analysis of crystal structures, particularly open-framework materials such as zeolites and MOF's. Link In this picture Prof. Michael O'keeffe is giving me the diploma for the best poster. |
Our paper on SBUs for MOFs is among the top 10 most accessed in Chem. Rev. Soc. during 2009.
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Roberto Rocca Fellowship, 2009
 Each year the Program awards around 12 to 15 new Fellowships. Fellows are selected by the Program's Scientific Committee comprising senior managers of the sponsoring companies. Fellowships are awarded for a period of two years and may be used for tuition, fees and living expenses. The award amount will depend on the candidate’s financial need but in general Fellowships do not cover all expenses and candidates are encouraged to seek complementary sources of funding. At the discretion of the Roberto Rocca Education Program, fellowships may be renewed for up to an additional two years." Link |
We won the "Best paper in Science magazine in 2007": the prestigious AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize.
 This paper describes the synthesis of crystalline three-dimensional frame- works of organic materials with high porosity. It had long been known that inorganic materials (such as zeolites) or organic compounds linked with metals could be made into such frameworks, but to accomplish this result with metal-free organic frameworks achieves what one reviewer described as a "holy grail" in organic materials chemistry. The authors cleverly employed a condensation reaction involving boron and oxygen to create three-dimensional structures with covalent bonding; these had the needed stability to be formed into a variety of complex, highly-ordered network structures with high porosity. The result opens up a host of new applications in materials chemistry." Annoucement, AAAS Report (p18) |
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