Research Progress in Metal-Organic Framework Materials
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: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 66
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), as an innovative and highly versatile class of crystalline porous materials with tailorable topology, functionality, porosity, and electrical properties, have epitomized the frontier of versatile materials science and chemistry. Due to these exceptional characteristics, MOFs have garnered extensive research interest across various fields, including gas adsorption and separation, drug delivery, catalysis, energy storage, and sensing. Recently, the rapid development of coordination chemistry, synthesis strategy, theoretical and computational modelling, and scalable manufacturing technology has further expanded the functional fields of MOFs and their derivatives, facilitating the synergistic integration of conductivity, catalytic activity, and structural stability. Meanwhile, challenges associated with stability, charge transport, and scalability have driven the development of defect engineering, heteroatom regulation, and MOF-derived materials, offering new opportunities to bridge fundamental design and practical implementation.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the cutting-edge advances in the design, synthesis, structural engineering, and functional applications of MOFs and their derivatives.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- All aspects of design, synthesis, and structural engineering of MOFs and MOF-derived hybrid materials;
- MOF-derived functional materials, including carbon-based materials, metal oxides, carbides, nitrides, phosphides, and single-/dual- atom catalysis, etc;
- Electrochemical energy storage applications, including batteries and supercapacitors;
- Electrocatalysis (ORR, OER, HER, CO₂RR, NRR, MOR, EOR, etc.), photocatalysis, and thermal catalysis applications;
- Gas adsorption, storage, and separation applications;
- Single-atom and dual-atom catalysts;
- Environmental applications;
- Modelling, simulation, and machine-learning-driven design of MOF structures;
- Advanced characterization techniques.
Dr. Lulu Chai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal-organic framework
- MOF-derived composite material
- single-atom catalyst
- dual-atom catalysis
- energy-related application
- structural regulation
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