Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) in Catalysis
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalysis Enhanced Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 205
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crystallographically well-defined metal–organic frameworks have been studied as model heterogeneous catalysts and/or catalyst supports for understanding and enabling chemical transformations in liquid and gas phases. Linkers, nodes, and confined spaces in MOFs help regulate catalyst sitting, catalyst stability, catalyst reactivity, and reactants/products accessibility. Synergistic effects by combining active sites in MOFs and guest catalysts cooperatively facilitate synergistic catalysis, tandem catalysis, and redox-complementary catalysis. Their catalysis performance can be tuned by changing the surrounding environment beyond the active sites to accomplish the desired chemical transformations.
This Special Issue on “Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) in Catalysis” seeks high quality works focusing on the latest novel discoveries of MOF roles in applications of both gas- and liquid-phase heterogeneous catalysis via thermal-, photo-, or electro-catalytic pathways. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- All aspects of synthesis, preparation, and characterization of novel MOF catalysts;
- Catalytic elimination of environmental pollutants using MOF catalysts, such as nitrogen oxides, ammonia, sulfur and chlorinated compounds;
- Catalytic decarbonization using MOF catalysts, such as CO2 hydrogenation, alkane oxidation;
- Catalytic clean energy production, such as catalytic hydrogen generation.
Dr. Jian Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal-organic frameworks
- decarbonization
- environmental remediation
- heterogeneous catalysis
- clean fuel production
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