Mircea Dincă (@DincaGroup) / X

Mircea Dincă

529 posts

Mircea Dincă

@DincaGroup

Professor, wonderer, entrepreneur

web.mit.edu/dincalab/index…

Joined March 2018

Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Jul 20, 2021
From among so many great finalists (and friends!), what are the chances? Looking forward to celebrate with all in NY! Thanks so much @BlavatnikAwards for rewarding curiosity-driven science!
Blavatnik Awards
@BlavatnikAwards
Jul 20, 2021
Announcing the Laureates 🥇 🥇 🥇 of the 2021 Blavatnik National Awards! 🎉Congratulations 🎉 to Mircea Dincă @DincaGroupMIT @ChemistryMIT @MIT, Kay Tye @kaymtye @salkinstitute, Andrea Alù @andrea_alu @asrc_gc @GC_CUNY @GradCenterNews @CUNY bit.nyas.org/3ivuSqe #blavatnik2021
Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Aug 15, 2022
We are close now @transaera. A real-life MOF-based AC unit that will be 50% more energy efficient!
Somerville startup has a cool take on air conditioning - The Boston Globe
From bostonglobe.com
Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Aug 16, 2022
MOFs are definitely metallic! 🤘@PNASNews
pnas.org
Porous lanthanide metal–organic frameworks with metallic conductivity | PNAS
Metallic charge transport and porosity appear almost mutually exclusive. Whereas metals demand large numbers of free carriers and must have minimal...
Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Jul 20, 2023
>15 years in the making, finally figured out how a tetramanganese cluster in MnBTT MOF activates AND evolves O2: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… @AndreiIliescu7 @XinHeChem @KulikGroup @TianyangChen7
Reversible O–O Bond Scission and O2 Evolution at MOF-Supported Tetramanganese Clusters
From pubs.acs.org
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Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Jul 6, 2022
~17 years ago, as a graduate student, I saw the strangest reactivity but never could explain it. I never let it go, and with a talented team, we finally have it: O2 evolution (and O2 activation) enabled by a tetramanganese SBU in a MOF:
chemrxiv.org
Reversible O–O Bond Scission and O2 evolution at MOF-supported Tetramanganese Clusters | ChemRxiv
The scission of the O–O bond in O2 and the formation of O–O bonds during the evolution of O2 in photosynthesis are the engines of aerobic life as we know it. Likewise, the reduction of O2 and its...
Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Nov 23, 2020
Excited to share this gargantuan amount of work in one paper, getting to single crystals of 2D conductive MOFs: rdcu.be/cbcfT Big congrats to my postdoc @JinhuDou, and many thanks to collaborators @chhendon @MaxxSolidChem and many twitter-less others
Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Jan 18, 2024
Here's to a battery that doesn't need cobalt, nickel, or phosphate, stores just as much energy, and is probably longer-lived and safer! Open access in @ACSCentSci and funded by @Lamborghini Fantastic work by @TianyangChen7 @HarishBanda3 @Jules_Oppenheim
A Layered Organic Cathode for High-Energy, Fast-Charging, and Long-Lasting Li-Ion Batteries
From pubs.acs.org
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Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Jul 1, 2022
MOFs are way more active electrocatalysts than previously suspected! Amazing work @rain__mariano, and collaborators @Patrick_Unwin pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… this is likely general for MOFs and not just this one example! @TianyangChen7 @Jules_Oppenheim
Thousand-fold increase in O2 electroreduction rates with conductive MOFs
From pubs.acs.org
Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Jul 16, 2024
Research in conductive MOFs should not be all about chasing metrics, but about understanding!Proud of this work on learning more about what makes Ni-diamine 2D MOFs special @J_A_C_S
Superior Charge Transport in Ni-Diamine Conductive MOFs
From pubs.acs.org
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Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Apr 17, 2023
Super proud of this one, with lead co-authors @TianyangChen7 & @HarishBanda3 . Extremely fast charging and high capacity #EnergyStorage organic materials in water. Opens a big new chapter in our research and features our first co-author from @Lamborghini
High-rate, high-capacity electrochemical energy storage in hydrogen-bonded fused aromatics
From cell.com
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Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Apr 18, 2024
A slamdunk of a defense from our newest PhD @Jules_Oppenheim, who has likely developed the deepest insight in water sorption in MOFs, with his magnum opus still to come out, on top of his amazing productivity! Congrats Jules!
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Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Nov 27, 2023
We're getting more interested in ions and MOFs: A MOF with a surprisingly high Zn2+-ion conductivity, fresh out in JACS! Courtesy of good-old cation exchange in one of my grad-school favorites... pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… @Jules_Oppenheim @SolidStateOMind and X-less Andrei Iliescu.
A Solid Zn-Ion Conductor from an All-Zinc Metal–Organic Framework Replete with Mobile Zn2+ Cations
From pubs.acs.org
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Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Jun 8, 2023
With my first PhD student @BrozekCarl, who is rocking it at Oregon!
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Mircea Dincă
@DincaGroup
Apr 10, 2020
For a real page-turner in this time of angst, check out our new review on conductive MOFs @ACSChemRev :
Electrically Conductive Metal–Organic Frameworks
From pubs.acs.org