[2] Her research concerns nanoporous materials such as zeolites and metal–organic frameworks, and their applications including reverse osmosis, water splitting for the hydrogen economy, and the detection and sequestration of radioactive iodine produced as nuclear waste.
[3][4] She also developed use of crystalline silicotitanates (discovered by Anthony and Dosch) to remove radioactive cesium from contaminated seawater after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
[3][4][5] Nenoff was born on December 7, 1965, in Orange, New Jersey,[5] the daughter of a biologist and a physician.
After attending an all-girls high school,[3] she majored in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1987.
[4] She earned a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993,[6] supervised by Galen D. Stucky,[7] and has worked at Sandia since then.