Conveners
Framework structures: MOFs, COFs, etc.
- Alexander Pöthig (TUM)
- Ulli Englert (Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University)
The ability to selectively take up and store gases is one of the promising properties of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) already implemented for industrial applications. Judicious choice of secondary building units can allow for further catalyzing reactions with stored content; for example, much research is currently pursuing their use for filtration of chemical warfare agents. Recently, the...
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are known for their versatile combination of inorganic building units and organic linkers, which offers immense opportunities in a wide range of applications. However, many MOFs are typically synthesized as multiphasic polycrystalline powders, which are challenging for studies by X-ray diffraction. Therefore, developing new structural characterization techniques...
Several metal-organic frameworks (MOF) excel in harvesting water from the air or as heat pumps as they show a steep step in the water isotherm at 10-30 RH%c [1]. Yet, a precise understanding of the water structure within the confined space of such MOF is still lacking. Here, we unravel the structural properties of CAU-10-H under various water content. We show that the water content can be...
In the artificial self-assembling systems based on metal atoms and spacing ligands small variations of reagents, stoichiometry, solvents or concentration may cause drastic changes in the structure of the resulting supramolecular architectures [1,2]. Methodologically based rational supramolecular design requires the systematic study of the effects of variation of one of the parameters when...
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are 3-dimensional architectures constructed via the coordination of metal ions or cluster as nodes and organic linkers as struts, resulting in crystallographically well-defined porosity.[1] After removing the guest molecules from the pores, record values of surface area and pore volumes can be reached.
A unique type of adsorption-induced phenomenon has been...
Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), a very important subfamily of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), are constructed from tetrahedrally coordinated M2+ (Zn2+ or Co2+) ions, which are interlinked by imidazolate linkers[1]. Recently, we discovered that the prototypical ZIF-4 (chemical composition M(im)2, im– = imidazolate) undergoes a phase transition from an open pore (op) to a closed pore...
