Metal Organic Frameworks

News Metal Organic Frameworks

• Seeing molecules inside a nanometer-sized “sardine can”!
  

  Most people don’t think about how molecules fit in the ultra-small spaces between other molecules, but that is what Professor Masahide Takahashi’s research team do every day at Osaka Metropolitan University. They study metal-organic frameworks (MOF), composed of modularly arranged metal ions and mol more

• Step toward a Circular Economy?
  

  Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most common plastics. Discarded PET most often ends up in landfills or in the environment because the rate of recycling remains low. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team has now reported a zirconium-based metal–organic framework material th more

• New materials for storing flammable industrial gases
  

  How do I store more, and better? This summarizes the challenge of transporting flammable gases. To ensure industrial safety, these gases must be handled at defined temperature and pressure conditions that do not allow for optimal storage and release cycles. Existing porous materials can facilitate t 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