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Porous materials

PROJECTS

ACTIVE

2025-2028 Croatian Science Foundation Research Project “Mechanochemical strategies towards complex porous catalysts” 200,000 Euro. (PI Užarević)

2025-2027 - The Royal Society joint research project with the University of York, UK: ‘Oxidation and reduction on atomic scale: In-situ TEM studies of MOFs for catalysis’, (Croatian side PI: Dr. Krunoslav Užarević (RBI, Zagreb); UK side: Dr. Leonardo Lari (University of York, York)) (PI Užarević)

2025-2026 Bilateral project MZO-DAAD “Development of electro-mechanochemical synthetic methodologies for preparation of functional materials” (Croatian side PI: Dr. Krunoslav Užarević (RBI, Zagreb); German side PI: Dr. Lars Borchardt (RUB, Bochum)) (PI Užarević)

FORMER

2023-2026 European Commission Recovery and Resilience Plan Research Project “Targeted synthesis of new functional materials by computationally assisted mechanochemical templation“, 750,000 Euro (PI Brekalo)

2023-2025 Bilateral project MZO-ARIS “SS-NMR study of the supramolecular and covalent-organic frameworks and their functionalized counterparts” (Croatian side PI: Dr. Bahar Karadeniz (RBI, Zagreb); Slovenian side PI: Dr. Andraž Krajnc (KI, Ljubljana)) (PI Karadeniz)

2021-2025 Croatian Science Foundation Research Project “The relevance of mechanochemical reactivity in the prebiotic chemical evolution and its transfer to sustainable and low-emission chemical production” 200,000 Euro. (PI Užarević)

2021-2023 Bilateral project MZO-DAAD “New generation of magnetic MOF composites based on controllable confinement of selected endometallofullerenes” (Croatian side PI: Dr. Krunoslav Užarević (RBI, Zagreb); German side PI: Dr. Alexey Popov (IFW, Dresden)) (PI Užarević)

2021 CERIC-ERIC grant “SS-NMR study of the local node- and framework response to nano-sized guest inclusion in non-conventional metal-organic frameworks“ 240 hours collection at the 600 MHz solid-state NMR spectrometer MAGIC at Slovenian NMR Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia (PI Užarević)

2021 CERIC-ERIC grant “SS-NMR for probing hydrogen-bonding interactions in nucleobase cocrystals“ 168 hours collection at the 600 MHz solid-state NMR spectrometer MAGIC at Slovenian NMR Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia (PI Stolar)

2019-2022 European Social Fund and Croatian Science Foundation Research Project “Mechanochemical and solvent-free strategies towards functional porous materials with advanced physico-chemical and catalytic properties” 300,000 Euro (PI Užarević)

2016-2019 Croatian Science Foundation Installation Research Projects “Mechanochemical reactivity under controlled temperature and atmosphere for clean synthesis of functional materials” 150,000 Euro (PI Užarević)