Advances in MOF or COF-Derived Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 4484
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metal‒organic frameworks; gas separation; molecular simulation; machine learning
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Dear Colleagues,
Organic‒inorganic hybrid materials with interpenetrating porosity, tunable chemical structures, and excellent performance have attracted tremendous attention. Recently, there has been increasing interest in delivering advanced organic‒inorganic hybrid materials for energy utilization and environmental remediation. It will focus on various organic‒inorganic hybrid materials including metal‒organic frameworks (MOFs), zeolitic‒imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), mixed-matrix polymeric material, porous metal/metal oxide/graphene hybrid materials, and so on.
The conventional techniques of separation, such as the desalination of sea water, are highly energy-intensive. As an alternative, material separation is technically feasible and economically viable with the advantages of easy operation, low cost, and high efficiency. In these techniques, it is critically important to design and develop novel high-performance separation materials. Despite organic‒inorganic hybrid materials being up-and-coming candidates in separation applications, more synthesis strategies and microscopic mechanisms are required to investigate the promising organic‒inorganic hybrid materials with high efficiency and low cost for the energy and environmental fields.
This Special Issue will provide a comprehensive overview on recent advances in designing and advancing organic‒inorganic hybrid materials for gas separation, catalysis, thermal energy storage, etc. The selected articles will provide a state-of-the-art overview of the progress over the last years in the design, synthesis, characterization, simulation, and application of organic‒inorganic hybrid materials.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Development and characterization of new organic‒inorganic hybrid materials;
- Calculation and simulation of the structure‒property relationships of organic‒inorganic hybrid materials;
- Incorporation of different inorganic substances in the polymeric matrix, such as metal/metal oxide/sulfide/phosphide, graphene, etc.;
- Studying the potential applications of organic‒inorganic hybrid materials;
- Separation and purification of gases or liquids;
- Storage of gases (H2, CO2, CH4, etc.);
- Desalination of sea water;
- Thermal energy storage;
- Lithium battery material.
Prof. Dr. Zhiwei Qiao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- organic‒inorganic hybrid materials
- metal‒organic frameworks
- mixed-matrix polymer
- separation of gases or liquids
- simulation of materials
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