Current Trends in Metal-Organic Framework for Environment and Catalysis
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 2018
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metal-organic frameworks; porous carbon; carbon dots; fullerene self-assembly; nanoarchitechtonics; heterogeneous catalysis; adsorption; sensing; supercapacitor; electrocatalysis; battery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been recognized as an emerging class of crystalline porous materials and attracted tremendous interest. Numerous MOFs have been developed and found to be promising materials in a wide variety of fields because of their structural, textural, and functional diversity and tunability. Current trends in MOF research have mostly focused on finding a way to use MOFs or MOF-related materials in real-world applications. There are different kinds of devices/systems, such as gas storage/separation, adsorption in polar/non-polar media, molecular sensing, drag storage/delivery, and catalysis, developed using MOF-related materials. Moreover, the performance or new functionalities may be added to a MOF structure via suitable incorporation of secondary metals or ligands to obtain MOFs with bi-metals and bi-ligands, respectively. Moreover, MOFs are very promising materials for composites with other materials, utilizing their pore spaces and metal/ligand sites, which generally result in better functionality in various applications. In addition, MOFs including pristine, bimetallic, and composites are often used as a precursor to obtain fascinating nanohybrid carbon materials with impressive results in adsorption, catalysis, storage/separations, sensing, etc.
This Special Issue on “Current Trends in the Metal–Organic Framework for Environment and Catalysis” welcomes original scientific research articles, comprehensive reviews, and communications in relevant research areas focusing on the design, synthesis, post-modification, and characterization of MOFs (pristine, bimetallic, and composites) and their derived carbons for environmental remediation through adsorption, storage/separation, catalysis, and sensing.
Dr. Biswa Nath Bhadra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal-organic framework
- composite MOFs
- bimetallic-MOFs
- MOF-membrane
- MOF-derived carbon
- adsorption
- storage
- separation
- catalysis
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