SURMOFs Modified Materials for Biological and Technical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Porous coordination polymers (PCPs) or metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly porous crystalline hybrid materials, which are composed of a combination of inorganic metal ions and organic polytopic complex linkers linked to each other by strong coordination bonds. These hybrid architectures exhibit a great variety of composition and topologies leading to large pore volume and surface area. The high and regular porosities, pore size and shape tunability, and the internal amphiphilic microenvironment make MOFs excellent candidates for several industrial applications.

However, a number of other emerging applications exploiting the electrical and optical properties of MOFs require high-quality monolithic, pinhole-free thin films supported on solid substrates, in other words, surface-supported metal–organic frameworks (SURMOFs), including coatings on fibers. Well-defined thin films are also required for the fabrication of membranes for gas-phase or liquid separation, the construction of sensor devices, the fabrication of optical, photovoltaic, and electronic devices, as well as the use of MOF thin films in electrochemical applications.

For this Special Issue on “SURMOFs-Modified Materials for Biological and Technical Applications”, we invite contributions in the broad field of pure and/or hybrid SURMOFs and MOF-based membranes. We seek submissions with an original perspective and advanced thinking relevant to this field. Both experimental and computational studies are welcome.

Dr. Tawheed Hashem
Dr. Indrani Choudhuri
Guest Editors

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• surface-supported metal–organic frameworks (SURMOFs)
• metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)
• membrane technology
• metal–organic framework thin films
• MOF-based membranes
• membrane-based separation
• ion transport membrane
• MOF–surface interface
• gas-phase separation
• liquid separation
• gas and liquid sensors
• optical
• water purification
• biomedical applications