Metal Organic Frameworks

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• Stabilizing gassy electrolytes could make ultra-low temperature batteries safer
  

  A new technology could dramatically improve the safety of lithium-ion batteries that operate with gas electrolytes at ultra-low temperatures. Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a separator--the part of the battery that serves as a barrier between the anode and cathode- more

• New insights into switchable MOF structures
  

  Metal-organic framework compounds (MOFs) are widely used in gas storage, material separation, sensor technology or catalysis. A team led by Prof. Dr. Stefan Kaskel, TU Dresden, has now investigated a special class of these MOFs at the MX beamlines of BESSY II. These are "switchable" MOFs that can re more

• Supercapacitors challenge batteries
  

  A team working with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has developed a highly efficient supercapacitor. The basis of the energy storage device is a novel, powerful and also sustainable graphene hybrid material that has comparab 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