Metal-Organic Frameworks
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 7840
Special Issue Editor
Interests: coordination polymers; metal–organic frameworks; supramolecular structures for functional applications; structural topology; gas adsorptions; CO2 uptake
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Dear Colleagues,
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as particularly exciting porous materials which can be simply self-assembled from metal ions with organic linkers to create fascinating 2D or 3D structural topologies. The pores within MOFs can be utilized to encapsulate a large number of guest species as energy storage of fuels, capture of gases, separation, etc. The applications of MOFs in societally and industrially relevant fields include gases storage, capture of gases, catalysis, drug delivery sensing, electronic devices, as synthetic precursors to porous materials, and among others. This Special Issue focus on creating a multidisciplinary forum of discussion on recent advances in the attractive and unique properties of MOFs, such as structure flexibility, high surface area, tunable pore size and functionalizable organic linkers and metal centres, which have led to vast array of promising applications. This Special Issue accepts high quality full articles and short communications containing original research results and review articles of exceptional merit.
Of particular interests are (though not exclusively): The design of new organic linkers in the synthesis and structural topology of new porous MOFs, gases (CO2 capture, H2 and CH4) storage, and gas separation, water treatment using adsorptive properties of MOFs, heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis, fluorescent sensors, etc.
Prof. Dr. Chih-Chieh Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Structural diversity and topology for MOFs
- Porous MOFs for CO2 capture
- Porous MOFs for H2 and CH4 storage
- MOFs for water treatment
- MOFs for fluorescent sensor
- MOFs for heterogeneous catalysis
- MOFs for photocatalysis
