Metal Organic Frameworks

News Metal Organic Frameworks

• Metal-organic frameworks become flexible
  

  Materials consisting of inorganic and organic components can combine the best of two worlds: under certain circumstances, the so-called MOFs – short for metal-organic frameworks – are structured in the same order as crystals and are at the same time porous and deformable. This opens up the prospect more

• Novel glass materials made from organic and inorganic components
  

  Linkages between organic and inorganic materials are a common phenomenon in nature, e.g., in the construction of bones and skeletal structures. They often enable combinations of properties that could not be achieved with just one type of material. In technological material development, however, thes more

• Coating plastics by porous nanofilm
  

  A research team has developed a new method for creating metal-organic framework (MOF) thin films that can be applied to sensors and electric devices. Like sponges, porous materials contain pores. The pore size affects the property of the material. For example, small pores create more absorbent surfa more

Infographics Metal Organic Frameworks

Capturing Neon in a Metal-Organic Framework

Here’s the latest graphic from Chemunicate (the Compound Interest side project that works with chemistry researchers and institutions to highlight their research in graphical form). This graphic is a collaboration with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) and looks at their recent resea more

Publications Metal Organic Frameworks

• Direct water-based synthesis and characterization of new Zr/Hf-MOFs with dodecanuclear clusters as IBU

  Two new metal-organic framework compounds of composition [M12(μ3-O)8(μ3-OH)8(μ-OH)6(OH)6(H2O)6(APDC)6], with M = Zr and Hf denoted as M-CAU-39, containing the azopyridinedicarboxylate ion (APDC2-) as a new linker, were obtained by a water based synthesis. The crystal structure was determined from po more

• Microwave-assisted dry-gel conversion - a new sustainable route for the rapid synthesis of metal-organic frameworks with solvent re-use

  Microwave-assisted dry-gel conversion (MW-DGC) combines advantages of concentrated reactants in DGC with fast heating by microwave irradiation. This novel combination allows to drastically decrease the amount of solvent needed for synthesis and reaction times with energy needed. Further, MW-DGC allo more

• Hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks: design, structures and potential applications

  Hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs), a new type of porous material following the metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs), etc., have emerged as one of the promising candidates in diverse potential applications. In this highlight, we summarize the key progress of the more