Thanks a lot Gabriel Tovar for your hard work within this secondment at the BCMaterials. After three months at our center, and following the work developed by the PhD student Dimas Torres, we have achieved to obtain ten new MOF materials modified with hydrogen donor molecules, quantify the functionalization degree, and perform the heavy metal adsorption initial experimental tests. Gabriel has obtained the first Chitin-MOF membranes within the project, demonstrating their potentials to remove pollutants from water synthetic solutions. In addition, Gabriel has started a new collaborations within the INDEMOF project, and jointly with Marcela Quintero, they have developed the first Chitin-photo-Active MOF membrane. We will test for the photo-reduction oxidation of heavy metals at AMTC in the near future (Fingers crossed ;)).

Summarizing the research results of Ainara Valverde and Gabriel Tovar during the last week of Gabriel´s secondment within INDESMOF project