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Laura Espinal (Fed)

Materials Scientist

Laura Espinal is a Materials Scientist working in the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).  

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Awards

U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award (2022). Group award - For developing high-pressure reference isotherms of nanoscale porous adsorbents.

NIST Colleagues’ Choice Award (2021).  For her leadership in creating the Parents Network to unite and support caregivers at NIST during a time of crucial need.

Publications

Carbon Capture and Storage Properties of Porous Octahedral Molecular Sieve

Author(s)
Matthew Lawson, Jarod C. Horn, Winnie Wong-Ng, Laura Espinal, Huong Giang Nguyen, James A. Kaduk, Saul H. Lapidus, Yongtao Meng, Steven L. Suib, Lan Li
Based on the experimentally determined framework structure of porous MnO2 octahedral molecular sieve (OMS)-5, we used density functional theory-based
Created October 9, 2019, Updated April 2, 2025