New Advances in Metal-Organic Framework (MOF)-Based Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Porous Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 229
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Interests: porous materials; metal-organic frameworks; COF; nanoparticles; catalysis; gas adsorptions and separation; sensor; lanthanides; quantum dots
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Dear Colleagues,
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) represent a new class of crystalline porous materials that build from the self-assembly of suitable metal ions or clusters and organic ligands. Transition metal ions and lanthanides are most often used, nevertheless, main group elements are also used for the synthesis of MOFs. Among the organic ligands, dicarboxylates, imidazole and N-heterocycles are mostly used. MOFs based on phosphonate, sulfonates and mixed organic ligands are also reported. The properties of MOFs depend on the properties of respective metal ions and their arrangement. Larger surface area, tuneable pore dynamics, high stability and high crystallinity made MOF a leading class of porous materials in many different advanced applications, gas adsorption and storage, catalysis, sensing, waste removal, optical materials, semiconductors, magnetism and so on. MOFs with chiral building units find potential applications in the chromatographic separation of drugs and chiral small molecules. Carbonized MOFs are found to be the best candidates for electrocatalysis; oxygen reduction reactions, oxygen evolution reactions, hydrogen evolution reactions, Li-ion batteries and supercapacitor applications. MOFs are also used as photocatalysts with excellent stability and reactivity. Recently MOFs are also processed into different shapes (monolith, spheres, granules, fibres), thin films (by spin coating or drop casting) and deposited on polymers or semiconductor materials for advanced applications. MOFs are also upscaled to a higher scale and used in real practical applications.
Dr. Himanshu Jena
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal organic framework
- gas adsorption and storage
- catalysis
- sensing
- waste remedification
- optical materials
- lanthanides
- molecular magnetism
- OER, ORR, HER, supercapacitor
- photocatalysis
- dye adsorption
- drug delivery
- nanomaterials
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