Nicola Giri
Queen's University Belfast
12 Papers
36 Citations
Nicola Giri is an academic researcher from Queen's University Belfast. The author has contributed to research in topics: Micelle & Adsorption. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 12 publications. Previous affiliations of Nicola Giri include University of Camerino.
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Papers
Liquids with permanent porosity
Nicola Giri,Mario G. Del Pópolo,Mario G. Del Pópolo,Gavin Melaugh,Rebecca L. Greenaway,Klaus Rätzke,Tönjes Koschine,Laure Pison,Margarida F. Costa Gomes,Andrew I. Cooper,Stuart L. James +10 more
TL;DR: The results provide the basis for development of a new class of functional porous materials for chemical processes, and a one-step, multigram scale-up route for highly soluble ‘scrambled’ porous cages prepared from a mixture of commercially available reagents are presented.
Synthesis by extrusion: continuous, large-scale preparation of MOFs using little or no solvent
TL;DR: Continuous flow mechanochemical and melt-phase synthesis at kg h–1 rates from solid reagents and either no solvent, or only minimal solvent, is reported.
Alkylated organic cages: from porous crystals to neat liquids
Nicola Giri,Christine E. Davidson,Gavin Melaugh,Mario G. Del Pópolo,James T. A. Jones,Tom Hasell,Andrew I. Cooper,Peter N. Horton,Michael B. Hursthouse,Stuart L. James +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the melting points of rigid organic iminospherand cages are observed to be as low as 50 °C and a fully Newtonian liquid phase is obtained above 80 °C.
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One-pot two-step mechanochemical synthesis: ligand and complex preparation without isolating intermediates
TL;DR: The use of ball milling to induce reactions between solids (mechanochemical synthesis) can provide lower-waste routes to chemical products by avoiding solvent during the reaction, there are further potential advantages in using one-pot multistep syntheses to avoid the use of bulk solvents for the purification of intermediates as discussed by the authors.
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Designing and understanding permanent microporosity in liquids
Gavin Melaugh,Nicola Giri,Christine E. Davidson,Stuart L. James,Mario G. Del Pópolo,Mario G. Del Pópolo +5 more
TL;DR: Simulations identify a candidate "porous liquid" in which 30% of the cages remain empty in the liquid state and chain length and size of terminal chain substituents can be used to tune, within certain margins, the permanence of intramolecular cavities in such neat liquids.
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