Metal Organic Frameworks

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• Clean air research converts toxic air pollutant into industrial chemical
  

  A toxic pollutant produced by burning fossil fuels can be captured from the exhaust gas stream and converted into useful industrial chemicals using only water and air thanks to a new advanced material developed by an international team of scientists. New research led by The University of Manchester, more

• Lab in hollow MOF capsules beyond integration of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis
  

  Homogeneous molecular catalysts are highly active and selective as they possess well-tailored structures and accessible sites. Unfortunately, the difficulty related to catalyst recovery impedes their practical application. The encapsulation of them inside hollow porous solid materials is a judicious more

• Sponge-like 2D material with interesting electrical conductivity and magnetic properties
  

  Chemists at the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), have reported the synthesis of a novel type of 2D metal organic framework (MOF) with interesting electrical conductivity and magnetic properties. Published in the Journal o 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