Recent publications
At Berkeley, we recycle everything but CO2 (Editorial)
B. Smit, At Berkeley, we recycle everything but CO2 Greenhouse Gas Sci Technol. 3, 1 (2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ghg.1352
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On the Thermodynamics of Framework Breathing: A Free Energy Model for Gas Adsorption in MIL-53
A. R. Ghysels, L. Vanduyfhuys, M. Vandichel, M. Waroquier, V. Van Speybroeck, and B. Smit, On the Thermodynamics of Framework Breathing: …
Large-scale Screening of Zeolite Structures for CO2 Membrane Separations
J. Kim, M. Abouelnasr, L.-C. Lin, and B. Smit, Large-scale Screening of Zeolite Structures for CO2 Membrane Separations J Am Chem …
The Mechanism of Carbon Dioxide Adsorption in an Alkylamine-Functionalized Metal-Organic Framework
N. Planas, A. L. Dzubak, R. Poloni, L.-C. Lin, A. McManus, T. M. McDonald, J. B. Neaton, J. R. Long, B. Smit, and L. Gagliardi, …
Short CV: (a short bio can be found here)
1990 PhD - Simulation of phase equilibria: from atoms to surfactants, Chemistry, University of Utrecht
1988 MSc - Applied Physics at the Delft University of Technology
1987 MSc - Chemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology
Employments:
2009-... Director, Energy Frontier Research Center (US Department of Energy) ”Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies”
2009-… Chemist Faculty Scientist, Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2008-... Professor of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley
2007-... Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California Berkeley
2004-2007 Director of CECAM, Lyon France.
2002-2004 Director of the Chemistry Education program (University of Amsterdam)
1997-2007 (Senior) Professor of Computational Chemsitry, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam
1990-1996 (Senior) Research Physicist, Shell Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1987-1990 Research Associate, Shell Research, Amsterdam , The Netherlands
