Our research interests center on the preparation and characterization of new coordination polymers/metal-organic framework with industrially relevant properties in catalysis, adsorption and separation, sensing properties and energy related applications. The research group is also interested in inorganic-organic hybrid materials in general and selected nanoparticle composite materials. The main activity of the research group is within materials discovery and crystal structure determination, characterization of the material’s fundamental chemical properties, and deduction of the corresponding structure-property relationship, frequently with the help of time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements.

Courses

KJEM120 - Chemistry of the Elements

NANO244 - Materials- and Nanochemistry

Master theses

Master theses are available for a variety of subjects within the topics of materials science the research group is active in. We are very much interested in synthesis of new materials with interesting properties for application in catalysis, adsorption and separation, renewable energy, and as sensors. The most promising materials are characterized more in depth using a variety of methods, like X-ray diffraction (including in-situ experiments performed at a synchrotron), simultaneous thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry coupled to mass spectrometry, and advanced gas and vapor adsorption and chemisorption.

One research focus is on coordination polymers (also known as metal-organic frameworks), which are inorganic-organic hybrid materials. Coordination polymers are interesting in many areas of application. For instance, they frequently have regular pores of <3 to 20 Å (i.e. 0.3-2 nm) which make them interesting materials for adsorption and separation processes, e.g. for CO2 capture or gas and liquid purification. They can also be functionalized to carry catalytic functions or act as sensors. 

In addition, we are engaged in research of nanoparticles on supports, e.g. metal supported catalysts. The interest there is to prepare materials with a narrow size distribution of the nanoparticles and investigate the effect on catalytic properties.

Master theses can span quite a wide range from synthesis to advanced characterization of materials. Most theses will contain most of these tasks to a certain extent. However, it is often possible to put the emphasis on the area a student is most interested in. For instance, students who are mainly interested in experimental synthetic work, a thesis subject may be predominantly concerned with discovery of new materials. On the other hand, a thesis can also be geared more towards thorough characterization of a material. The synthetic part of such a thesis will then play a minor part. It will usually consist of preparing an already known compound for in-depth investigation by the various characterization techniques.

2026

• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2026). Energimaterialer. (external link)
• Ruplekha Bordoloi; Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2026). Functionalized Terephthalate-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Prospective Materials for Hydrogen Purification and Catalysis. (external link)

2025

• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2025). Metal-organic frameworks: What are they and what can they do?. (external link)
• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2025). The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: Metal-Organic Frameworks. (external link)
• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2025). Metal-organic frameworks: Materials for H2 purification and catalytic transformations for hydrogen production and storage. (external link)
• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2025). En på laben. (external link)
• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2025). Medisinsk mirakel og kjemisk magi: Dette er nobelprisvinnerne 2025. (external link)
• Julie Brun; Amrita Panigrahi; Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2025). Direct observation of the dehydration of a metal hydroxido cluster to a metal oxido cluster in a metal-organic framework. (external link)
• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2025). How do we figure out how atoms are connected in compounds?. (external link)
• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2025). Shining light on metal-organic frameworks: From host-guest interactions to structural transformations. (external link)
• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2025). Shining (synchrotron) light on advanced porous materials to understand their application-oriented properties. (external link)

2024

• Olena Zavorotynska; Anna Cecilie Åsland; Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel et al. (2024). Exploring cluster formation in Zr-MOF synthesis in situ using X-ray absorption spectroscopy. (external link)
• Susan Sen; Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2024). Porous and Robust Metal-Organoborane Frameworks. (external link)
• Amrita Panigrahi; Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2024). Phosphine-based Metal-organic frameworks. (external link)
• Julie Brun; Amrita Panigrahi; Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2024). Direct observation of the dehydration of a metal hydroxido cluster to a metal oxido cluster in a metal-organic framework. (external link)

2023

• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2023). The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023: Quantum dots. (external link)
• Breogán Pato-Doldán; Mali Husby Rosnes; Dmitry Chernyshov et al. (2023). Adsorption induced phase transition in “rigid” metal-organic framework CPO-27. (external link)

2022

• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2022). Coordination polymers as versatile functional materials: Some examples of the effect of open metal sites, functional groups and flexibility on properties. (external link)

2021

• Pascal Daniel Croumbie Dietzel (2021). Structure-property relationships in MOFs from complementary in situ diffraction and gas adsorption experiments. (external link)

2020

• Alexander Westbye; Maria Asuncion Aranda Sanchez; Pascal D.C. Dietzel et al. (2020). A calcium zirconate based combined material for calcium-copper chemical looping technology. (external link)
• Breogán Pato-Doldán; Mali Husby Rosnes; Dmitry Chernyshov et al. (2020). Carbon dioxide induced structural phase transition in metal-organic frameworks CPO-27. (external link)
• Pascal D.C. Dietzel; Peter A. Georgiev; Morten Frøseth et al. (2020). Effect of larger pore size on the sorption properties of isoreticular metal–organic frameworks with high number of open metal sites. (external link)
• Mali Husby Rosnes; Breogán Pato-Doldán; Rune E. Johnsen et al. (2020). Role of the metal cation in the dehydration of the microporous metal–organic frameworks CPO-27-M. (external link)
• Pascal D.C. Dietzel; Richard Blom; Helmer Fjellvåg (2020). Variability in the formation and framework polymorphism of metal-organic frameworks based on yttrium(III) and the bifunctional organic linker 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalic acid. (external link)
• Amalie Skurtveit; Kristian Blindheim Lausund; Agnieszka A Gorzkowska-Sobas et al. (2020). Metall-organiske rammeverk: Supermaterialer som kan gjøre verden til et tryggere sted. (external link)
• Nuşik Gedikoğlu; Mali Husby Rosnes; Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2020). Adsorption of greenhouse gas N2O on microporous CPO-27 materials. (external link)

2019

• Mali Husby Rosnes; Jennifer S Mathieson; Karl Wilhelm Törnroos et al. (2019). Electrospray Mass Spectrometry Investigation into the Formation of CPO-27. (external link)
• Alexander Westbye; Maria Asuncion Aranda Sanchez; Gemma Grasa et al. (2019). Fixed Bed Reactor Validation of a Mayenite Based Combined Calcium–Copper Material for Hydrogen Production through Ca–Cu Looping. (external link)
• Mali Husby Rosnes; Fredrik Synnevåg Nesse; Martin Opitz et al. (2019). Morphology control in modulated synthesis of metal-organic framework CPO-27. (external link)

2018

• Nikola Drenchev; Mali Husby Rosnes; Pascal D.C. Dietzel et al. (2018). Open Metal Sites in the Metal-Organic Framework CPO-27-Cu: Detection of Regular and Defect Copper Species by CO and NO Probe Molecules. (external link)
• Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2018). Neues von der Bienenwabe. (external link)
• Alexander Westbye; Maria Asuncion Aranda Sanchez; Pascal D.C. Dietzel et al. (2018). The effect of Copper(II) oxide loading and precursor on the cyclic stability of combined mayenite based materials for calciumcopper looping technology. (external link)
• Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2018). Metal-organic frameworks as energy materials. (external link)
• Andrey Bezrukov; Karl Wilhelm Törnroos; Erwan Le Roux et al. (2018). Metal-organic frameworks with tridentate phosphine linkers. (external link)
• Coralie Celine Quadri; Erwan Le Roux; Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2018). N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Titanium as a Novel Class of Catalysts for the Copolymerization of Cyclohexene Oxide with CO2. (external link)
• Andrey Bezrukov; Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2018). Development of metal-organic frameworks with hydroxyl and phosphine functionalities for potential applications in adsorption and catalysis. (external link)
• Andrey Bezrukov; Karl Wilhelm Törnroos; Erwan Le Roux et al. (2018). Incorporation of an intact dimeric Zr&lt;sub&gt;12&lt;/sub&gt; oxo cluster from a molecular precursor in a new zirconium metal-organic framework. (external link)

2017

• Tim Ahnfeldt; Marc Christoph Enssle; Maria del Prado Carrion-Ramirez et al. (2017). Effect of ligand substitution on breathing mode of MOFs with MIL-53 type crystal structure. (external link)
• Breogán Pato-Doldán; Mali Husby Rosnes; Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2017). A comprehensive structural study of the CO2 adsorption process in the CPO-27 family. (external link)
• Andrey Bezrukov; Karl Wilhelm Törnroos; Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2017). Variation of network dimensionality and adsorption properties of metal-organic frameworks based on a series of phosphine containing linkers. (external link)
• Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2017). Investigation of the host-guest chemistry in coordination polymers using in-situ and operando experiments. (external link)
• Fredrik Lundvall; David Wragg; Ponniah Vajeeston et al. (2017). Ab initio structure solution and thermal stability evaluation of a new Ca(II) 3D coordination polymer using synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction data. (external link)
• Andrey A. Bezrukov; Karl Wilhelm Törnroos; Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2017). Modification of Network and Pore Dimensionality in Metal–Organic Frameworks Containing a Secondary Phosphine Functionality. (external link)
• Breogán Pato-Doldán; Mali Husby Rosnes; Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2017). An in-depth structural study of the CO2 adsorption process in porous metal-organic frameworks CPO-27. (external link)
• Breogán Pato-Doldán; Mali Husby Rosnes; Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2017). An In-Depth Structural Study of the Carbon Dioxide Adsorption Process in the Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks CPO-27-M. (external link)
• Andrey A. Bezrukov; Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2017). A Permanently Porous Yttrium-Organic Framework Based on an Extended Tridentate Phosphine Containing Linker. (external link)
• Andrey Bezrukov; Karl Wilhelm Törnroos; Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2017). New metal-organic frameworks with phosphine functional groups. (external link)
• Mali Husby Rosnes; Denis Sheptyakov; Alexandra Franz et al. (2017). On the elusive nature of oxygen binding at coordinatively unsaturated 3d transition metal centers in metal-organic frameworks. (external link)
• Pascal D.C. Dietzel (2017). Understanding adsorbent-adsorbate structures and structure-property relationships in metal-organic frameworks from diffraction and physisorption experiments. (external link)
• Nikola Drenchev; Pascal D.C. Dietzel; Mali Husby Rosnes et al. (2017). Low-temperature adsorption of CO and NO on CPO-27-Cu (MOF-74-Cu). (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

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