Synthesis and Application of Metal-Organic Framework Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2023) | Viewed by 2706
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In a metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), metal centers are coordinated through bridging ligands to form a crystalline material. In the last two decades, tremendous efforts have been made to design new MOFs with wide applications and commercialization. Special attention has been offered to designing MOFs with different crystal structures, morphology, composition, and porosity. The suitable choice of the metallic building block and the bridging ligand play a major role in controlling the structure and properties of MOFs. The metallic building block, having a different electronic configuration, geometry, and coordination environment, modulates the structure of the MOF. In addition, the synthetic process has a significant effect on tuning the structure. Post-synthetic modification can also be followed to attain new properties and fine-tune the porosity of MOFs. The tuned structure and porosity of MOFs result in a wide range of applications in different fields, such as gas sorption, gas storage separation, ion exchange, the removal of toxic substances, biosensors, drug delivery, organic catalysis, photocatalysis, energy conversion, and storage. In addition, MOFs have been successfully utilized as the precursor of a wide range of functional materials with desirable morphology, crystal structure, surface area, and porosity. This Special Issue describes recent achievements in the design and application of MOFs.
Thus, this issue will address:
- Well-established and facile methods for the synthesis of MOFs;
- The structural diversity of MOFs achieved by ligand design and synthesis;
- The synthesis of hybrid MOF-based materials;
- State-of-the-art characterization methods to understand the properties of MOFs;
- The application of MOFs in gas storage, separation, release, etc.;
- The use of MOFs in catalysis;
- The relevance of MOFs in the field of biosensors, nanozymes, and drug delivery;
- The use of MOFs for electrochemical and photochemical/photocatalytic energy conversion;
- MOFs as energy storage materials.
We invite you to submit a manuscript (full paper, communication, or review) for this Special Issue.
Dr. Arindam Indra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal–organic framework
- functional materials
- energy conversion and storage
- catalysis
- sensor technology
- nanozyme
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