Mircea Dincă

Mircea Dincă (born 1980) is a Romanian-American inorganic chemist. He is an associate professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, Dincă is leading a research group who focuses on the synthesis of "functional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which possess conductive, catalytic, and other material-favorable properties.

Figure 1: Ni-MFU‑4l: single-site heterogeneous catalyst

Early life and education

Mircea Dincă was born in Făgăraş, Romania. His passion for chemistry began in his chemistry class in 7th grade, where he had a “dedicated teacher that did spectacular demonstrations with relatively limited regard for safety”. In 1998, he represented Romania at the International Contest in Yakutsk, Russia, where he won first prize.[1]

Figure 2: Selective dimerization of propylene to branched hexenes using Ni-MFU-4l

After high school, Dincă was offered a scholarship from Princeton University and moved to New Jersey in 1999. At Princeton, he worked with Jeffrey Schwartz, conducting research on materials science. After graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2003, Dincă went on to the University of California at Berkeley to attend the Chemistry doctorate program, where he worked with chemistry professor Jeffrey Long on increasing H2 applications with mobile hydrogen storage applications. He graduated with his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2008.[2]

Career

Dincă completed his postdoc studies at M.I.T., where he was promoted to associate professor in 2010 and, in 2017, tenure.[2]

Research

Dincă’s research primarily focuses on electrical conductivity of MOF's, which was previously unknown and resulted in a new categorization of such materials with “charge mobility values”.[3] His focus is on the exploration of increasing electrical conductivity capacities through the marriage of organic and inorganic materials to assemble hybrid MOF's.

Research includes exploring electrochemical cycling through strongly adhering, electroactive metal–organic framework thin films to vary results, such as multicolored electrochromic responses[4] and transparent to dark behavior.[5]

Awards and honors

Dincă has received the following awards:[2]

References
  1. "Dinca Research Lab - About Mircea Dinca". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  2. "MIT Department of Chemistry - Dincă Research Lab". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  3. "Materials research earns chemistry professor 40th annual Alan T. Waterman Award | NSF - National Science Foundation". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  4. Wade, Casey R.; Li, Minyuan; Dincă, Mircea (2013-10-16). "Facile Deposition of Multicolored Electrochromic Metal-Organic Framework Thin Films". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52 (50): 13377–13381. doi:10.1002/anie.201306162. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 24133021.
  5. Alkaabi, Khalid; Wade, Casey R.; Dincă, Mircea (2016-08-11). "Transparent-to-Dark Electrochromic Behavior in Naphthalene-Diimide-Based Mesoporous MOF-74 Analogs". Chem. 1 (2): 264–272. doi:10.1016/j.chempr.2016.06.013. hdl:1721.1/107566. ISSN 2451-9294.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.