Awards Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research, 2014, First Place - Separations and Waste Forms ACS Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium, 2014, Finalist Projects Basic Energy Sciences: Separations & Heavy Element Chemistry Office of Nuclear Energy: Fuel Resources - Extraction of Uranium from Seawater Wigner Fellowship Lab Directed R&D Publications Abney, C. W.;* Patterson, J. T.; Gilhula, J. C.; Wang, L.; Hensley, D. K.; Chen, J.; Foo, G. S.; Wu, Z.; Dai, S. Controlling interfacial properties in supported metal oxide catalysts through metal-organic framework templating. J. Mater. Chem. A 2017. DOI: 10.1039/C7TA03894A Abney, C. W.;* Nan, Y.; Tavlarides, L. L. "X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Investigation of Iodine Capture by Silver-Exchanged Mordenite." Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2017, 56, 4837-4846. (By Invitation as part of "Class of 2017 Influential Researchers" special virtual issue.) Abney, C. W.;* Do, C.; Luo, H.; Wright, J.; He, L.; Dai, S. "Controlling the Intermediate Structure of an Ionic Liquid for f-Block Element Separations." J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 2049-2054. Williams, N. J.; Dehaudt, J.; Bryantsev, V.; Luo, H.; Abney, C. W.;* Dai, S. "Selective Separation of Americium from Europium Using 2,9-Bis(triazine)-1,10-phenanthrolines in Ionic Liquids: A New Twist on an Old Story." Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 2744-2747. Sun, Q.; Aguila, B.; Perman, J.; Earl, L. D.; Abney, C. W.; Cheng, Y.; Wei, H.; Nguyen, N.; Wojtas, L.; Ma, S. "Postsynthetically Modified Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient and Effective Mercury Removal." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 2786-2793. Li, B.; Sun, Q.; Zhang, Y.; Abney, C. W.; Aguila, B.; Lin, W.; Ma, S. "Functionalized Porous Aromatic Framework for Efficient Uranium Adsorption from Aqueous Solutions." ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, 12511-12517. Zhu, X.; Tian, C.; Veith, G. M.; Abney, C. W.; Dehaudt, J.; Dai, S. "In Situ Doping Strategy for the Preparation of Conjugated Triazine Frameworks Displaying Efficient CO2 Capture Performance." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 11497-11500. Tian, C.; Zhu, X.; Abney, C.W.; Tian, Z.; Jiang, D.-e.; Han, K.S.; Mahurin, S.M.; Washton, N.M.; Dai, S. "Use of Steric Encumbrance to Develop Conjugated Nanoporous Polymers for Metal-Free Catalytic Hydrogenation." Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 11919-11922. Thacker, N.C.; Lin, Z.; Zhang, T.; Gilhula, J.C.; Abney, C.W.; Lin, W. "Robust and Porous Beta-Diketiminate-Functionalized Metal-Organic Frameworks for Earth-Abundant-Metal-Catalyzed C-H Amination and Hydrogenation." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 3501-3509. Abney, C.W.*; Das, S.; Mayes, R.T.; Kuo, L.-J.; Wood, J.; Gill, G.; Piechowicz, M.; Lin, Z.; Lin, W.; Dai, S. "A Report of Emergent Uranyl Binding Phenomena by an Amidoxime Phosphonic Acid Co-Polymer." Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2016, 18, 23462-23468. C. W. Abney,* R. T. Mayes, M. Piechowicz, Z. Lin, V. Bryantsev, G. M. Veith, S. Dai and W. Lin, "XAFS investigation of polyamidoxime-bound uranyl contests the paradigm from small molecule studies." Energy Environ. Sci., 2016, 9, 448-453. (Highlighted on Journal Back Cover) M. Piechowicz, C. W. Abney, X. Zhou, N. C. Thacker, Z. Li, and W. Lin, "Design, Synthesis and Characterization of a Bifunctional Chelator with Ultrahigh Capacity for Uranium Uptake from Seawater Simulant." Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2016, 55, 4170-4178. Patents Metal-organic framework templated synthesis of porous inorganic materials as novel sorbents, US 20140319058 A1 Facilities Used Advanced Photon Source (APS) Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) ORNL Center for Nanoscale Materials Science (CNMS) Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

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