David Earl

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

322 Eberly Hall

412-624-1034, 8611(fax)

dearl@pitt.edu

http://www.chem.pitt.edu/people/faculty.asp?FacID=82

 

 

David Earl's research group uses computer simulation and modeling to develop new crystalline materials that are porous on the nanoscale, and to understand and utilize the effect of microphase separation, that can be induced by chemical interactions between different parts of molecules and used as a tool to develop new materials that are ordered on the nanoscale. We are specifically interested in developing new zeolites, structures that contain regular arrays of channels that are on the order of 0.3 to 1.5 nm in size and can be used as molecular sieves and catalysts, and in understanding the phase behavior of complex molecular species based on the knowledge of chemical structure alone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crystal structure of zeolite ZSM-5, used in the catalytic cracking of crude oil.