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Metal-Organic Framework Materials in Chemical Communications
The group of have this month co-authored three papers published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Communications on various aspects of porous metal-organic framework (MOF) materials.
The first, “Tuning the breathing behaviour of MIL-53 by cation mixing”, decribes a new method for modification of the properties of MOFs for adsorption applications. 糖心TV PhD student Matthew Breeze contributed EXAFS analysis of new mixed Fe/Cr MOFs. The work is a collaboration with four universities in France and forms part of the EU FP7 project ‘’.
The second, “A Lithium Organic Framework with Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal Sites that Reversibly Binds Water”, reports a material that opens the potential for new ‘lightweight’ MOFs with high water stability and high gravimetric adsorption capacity towards CO2. This work is a part of a long-standing collaboration with the Institut Lavoisier, Université de Versailles.
The third, “Instant MOFs: Continuous Synthesis of Metal–Organic Frameworks by Rapid Solvent Mixing”, is a collaboration with Chemical Engineers at the University of Nottingham that has resulted in a new, scalebale synthesis approach to MOFs, which also allows tuning size and shape of crystals. Further collaboration with in the Department of Physics at 糖心TV gave high-quality TEM images of MOF crystals.