Telfer Lab
Welcome to Shane Telfer's research group website. We are a team of synthetic chemists who design and make porous materials for applications in gas capture, separations, and catalysis. We are particularly interested in using porous materials to selectively capture CO2 for climate change remediation.
We are based in the School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand. We are a proud part of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and have a start-up company focused on carbon dioxide capture using MUF-16: Captivate Technology.
Latest news
March 2024
Our amigos in Mexico did a deep dive on SO2 adsorption in MUF-16!
February 2024
Yiming passes his PhD oral exam. Congratulations Dr Zhang!
February 2024
Steven joins the group as a MSc student working on...MOFs.
August 2023
Our paper on hetero-interpenetrated MOFs appears in Nature Chemistry in which we present the first deliberate strategy for preparing knitted MOFs that are built up from two different lattices. Full credit to everyone who pitched in along the journey, which started more than a decade ago when an internship student was using up some compounds that we'd accumulated in the lab: a perfect illustration of the power of undirected research!
News and views commentary on our article here.
July 2023
Our review on multicomponent MOFs appears in Angewandte Chemie. Kudos to Subo for the superb figures. This article is a tribute to all group members - past and present - who have brought multicomponent MOFs to life. Our lives were changed when the structure of MUF-7 first popped up on the screen back in 2012!
July 2023
It's Elnaz's turn to impress her first-year PhD confirmation panel with a report and presentation on MOFs for carbon dioxide capture.
April 2023
Ghadir passes her confirmation report in style and is set to tackle a challenging project.
February 2023
The group's work on flexible MOFs appears in Chemistry of Materials. Many thanks to our collaborators in the US for the neutron scattering and synchrotron measurements.
April 2022
Shane is on Today FM talking about the latest IPCC Working Group report and emerging technologies for carbon dioxide capture and negative emissions.
Dec 2021
The brilliant work of the group is recognized by Massey University.
Dec 2021
Shane was on NewsHub discussing a recent paper on the conversion of CO2 to jet fuel.
Sept 2019
Have a listen to our recent radio interview. This arose from a CO2 capture exhibit at Te Papa, the NZ national museum, which has showcased our research to thousands of visitors.
Dec 2018
The MOF2018 conference was a stunning success! Our group helped to host 630 international scientists in NZ for the week. Read more about the event here , and listen to a radio interview with one of our high-profile delegates here.