
Dr. Romy Lena Ettlinger
Liebig Fellowship
Recovering our Blue Planet: Resource Recovery and Treatment of Water Using Porous Composite Materials
Chair of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry
Academic Career and Research Areas
Romy Ettlinger obtained her PhD at the University of Augsburg (Germany) in the research group of Dr Hana Bunzen, establishing metal–organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles and iron oxide MOF core–shell nanoparticles for their application as nanocarriers for highly toxic arsenic-based drugs or as a theranostic agents. Subsequently, she joined the group of Prof. Russell E. Morris as postdoctoral research fellow at University of St Andrews (United Kingdom), developing functionalized porous hybrid framework materials and composites for medical and environmental applications. Currently, she is a Junior Research Group Leader at the Technical University of Munich (Germany).
The Ettlinger Research Group concentrates on the recovery of resources and the treatment of water with the aid of porous composite materials. The focus here is on the production and functionalisation of innovative filter systems based on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). These crystalline, porous 3D structures are constructed using a "building block principle" with inorganic (metal centres) and organic (ligands) "building blocks". This allows countless combinations of different "building blocks". MOFs therefore represent an ideal, extremely versatile material platform that can be customised specifically to your application.
Awards
- 09/23: Invitation to Nobel Symposium NS193: Metal-organic frameworks - Fundamental science enablin transformative materials, Karlskoga, Sweden and invited talk at pre-symposium.
- 08/23 Presentation Award at the Gordon Research Seminar “Nanoporous Materials and Their Applications” and invited talk at Gordon Research Conference “Expanding the Horizons of Porous Materials Design and Applications”, Andover, NH, United States.
- 07/22 Invitation to the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Chemistry), Lindau, Germany.
- 03/22 “Professor Erich Krautz-Preis 2021” for the best Ph.D. thesis of the year 2021 of the University of Augsburg.
- 07/21 Invitation to the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Interdisciplinary), Virtual Meeting.
Key Publications
R. Ettlinger,* S. M. Vornholt,* M. C. Roach, R. R. Tuttle, J. Thai, M. Kothari, M. Boese, A. Holwell, M. J. Duncan, M. Reynolds and R. E. Morris: 'Mixed Metal–Organic Framework Mixed-Matrix Membranes: Insights into Simultaneous Moisture-Triggered and Catalytic Delivery of Nitric Oxide using Cryo-scanning Electron Microscopy'. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 42, 49835–49842 (* shared first author):.
AbstractA. V. Desai, E. Lizundia, A. Laybourn, D. N. Rainer, A. R. Armstrong, R. E. Morris, S. Wuttke and R. Ettlinger: 'Green Synthesis of Reticular Materials'. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023 accepted (invitation of Adv. Funct. Mater.).
AbstractR. Ettlinger, U. Lächelt, R. Gref, P. Horcajada, T. Lammers, C. Serre, P. Couvreur, R. E. Morris and S. Wuttke: 'Toxicity of metal–organic framework nanoparticles: from essential analyses to potential applications'. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2022,51, 464-484 (invitation of Chem. Soc. Rev.).
AbstractR. Ettlinger, N. Moreno, D. Volkmer, K. Kerl and H. Bunzen: 'Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 as pH-Sensitive Nanocarrier for “Arsenic Trioxide” Drug Delivery'. Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 13189–13196.
AbstractR. Ettlinger, M. Sönksen, M. Graf, N. Moreno, D. Denysenko, D. Volkmer, K. Kerl and H. Bunzen: 'Metal–organic framework nanoparticles for arsenic trioxide drug delivery'. J. Mater. Chem. B 2018, 6, 6481–6489.
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