Functionalized Metal–Organic Frameworks for Sensing and Catalytic Application
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 21846
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of inorganic–organic hybrid materials with specific features such as structural diversity, easy functionalization and porosity. MOFs have been extensively investigated in the past, and tremendous progress has been achieved. This Special Issue will pay particular attention to the functionalized MOFs applied in sensing and catalytic fields. It has been demonstrated that photoluminescence MOFs have capacity for sensing definite species, for example toxic, hazardous, explosive, pollutant molecules via enhancement (turn-on) or quenching (turn-off) luminescence. On the other hand, porous MOFs can be utilized as a platform for heterogeneous catalytic reactions with superior selectivity and reusability due to the confined viod space. Furthermore, MOFs and derivated materials are powerful for photocatalytic and electrocatalytic reactions, particularly for carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion into energic molecules such as carbon monooxide (CO), methane (CH4). This Special Issue will welcome recent research works or rewiew papers on the above-mentioned areas, as well as related topics.
Prof. Dr. Wei-Yin Sun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal–organic frameworks
- functionalization
- sensing
- catalysis
- carbon dioxide conversion
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