Metal-organic Frameworks with Metallic Conductivity

Researchers produce MOF thin film with genuine metallic conductivity for the first time – prospects for the electronics of the future

19-Jun-2025 - Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are characterized by high porosity and a customizable structure. They have enormous potential, for example for applications in electronics. Until now, however, their low electrical conductivity has severely limited their use. With the help of AI- and robot-assisted ...

New material for efficient separation of Deuterium at elevated Temperatures

21-Mar-2025 - A novel porous material capable of separating deuterium (D2) from hydrogen (H2) at a temperature of 120 K has been introduced. Notably, this temperature exceeds the liquefaction point of natural gas, thus facilitating large-scale industrial applications. This advancement presents an attractive ...

Novel Materials with Almost Perfect Water Repellency

Potential Application for Self-Cleaning Surfaces in Automobiles or Buildings

18-Dec-2024 - Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) have developed a surface material that repels water droplets almost completely. Using an entirely innovative process, they changed metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) – artificially designed ...

Breakthrough in hydrogen research: More efficient isotope separation in sight

An international research team has taken a big step towards to realising its dream of separating hydrogen isotopes at room temperature at low cost

23-Sep-2024 - The lightest of all elements, hydrogen, is in great demand due to its promising role as a sustainable resource in the energy transition. A team from Leipzig University and TU Dresden, as part of the Hydrogen Isotopes 1,2,3H Research Training Group, has made an important breakthrough in the ...

Breakthrough in Nanotechnology: New Method to Synthesize Amorphous Metal-Organic Frameworks and Coordination Polymers

Innovative research approach enables the development of new materials and applications in technology and medicine

15-Jul-2024 - Researchers at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, led by Prof. Dr. Nicola Pinna, have made a groundbreaking advancement in nanotechnology, successfully extending the well-known Stöber method to synthesize amorphous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and coordination polymers (CPs). This innovative ...

How to capture water from air

Researchers decipher the underlying adsorption mechanism of special microporous material

09-Jan-2024 - Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and Dresden University of Technology (TUD) have unraveled the water adsorption mechanism in certain microporous materials – so-called hierarchical metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) – while probing them on the atomic scale. Discovered ...

A Glass That Sifts Carbon Dioxide

Research Group Develops a Glass Material That Precisely Separates Gases

27-Dec-2023 - Separating carbon dioxide molecules from gas mixtures requires materials with extremely fine pores. Researchers from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in cooperation with the University of Leipzig and the University of Vienna, have now found a novel way to do this: they transformed crystalline ...

How lab-made catalysts can help to get a grip on difficult greenhouse gases

09-Nov-2023 - Natural gas consists of light hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane. Such gases are more potent greenhouse gases than CO2, are constantly released into the atmosphere from natural gas wells, and are more difficult to store than, for example, their corresponding alcohols (methanol and ethanol, ...

Building scaffolds using exotic elements: Research team succeeds in creating novel metal-organic frameworks

13-Sep-2022 - Discovered 25 years ago, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) quickly gained the aura of a “miracle material” due to their particular properties: their large inner surfaces and tuneable pore sizes facilitate improved applications, for example in materials separation and gas storage. While previous ...

On the way to cell-type materials

Physicists decode the dynamic interaction between molecular machines in metal-organic frameworks

05-Jul-2022 - Molecular machines control a sizeable number of fundamental processes in nature. Embedded in a cellular environment, these processes play a central role in the intracellular and intercellular transportation of molecules, as well as in muscle contraction in humans and animals. In order for the ...