Unit 6.1 - Introduction to Metal-Organic Frameworks

[@ahmedhass146]

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[@FrankHoffmann1000]

Thank you very much for comment - I will continue my efforts to spread my knowledge.

[@bina5580]

Sending a big appreciation from South Korea. It was so helpful !!

[@mariadelourdesgonzalez2408]

Hey Frank, could you recommend some bibliography for this, to know more about the fundamentals of these materials, please?

[@FrankHoffmann1000]

Dear Maria, yes, of course - in the meantime, the following books have been published, which give a good summary of the state-of-the-art at their specific time (this area is still developing so fast...) a) Coordination Polymers - Design, Analysis and Application, St.R. Batten, S.M. Neville and D.R. Turner, RSC Publishing, 2009 b) Design and Construction of Coordination Polymers, M.-C. Hong & L. Chen (Eds.), Wiley, 2009 c) Metal-Organic Frameworks - Design and Application, L.R. MacGillivray (Ed.), Wiley, 2010 d) Metal-Organic Frameworks - Applications from Catalysis to Gas Storage, D. Farusseng (Ed.), Wiley-VCH, 2011 e) Coordination Polymers and Metal Organic Frameworks - Properties, Types and Applications, O.L. Ortiz & L.D. Ramirez (Eds.), Nova Science, 2012 f) The Chemistry of Metal-Organic Frameworks, S. Kaskel (Ed.), Wiley-VCH, 2016 best! Frank

[@remomayo4551]

How about quartz injected structures to create a MOF on a grand scale to use as a storage device for information? Utilizing refractions of twisted or curved light, taking advantage of monopolizing the fact that each wavelength of light can hold varying amounts and types of data. Or the reverse, where the MOFs can be refined to the point of incorporating its micro-structures in a glass/quartz hybrid platform?

[@FrankHoffmann1000]

I am sorry, but I think that this is out of my area of expertise. There are some composite materials based on MOFs, the most prominent being mixed-membrane materials (e.g. polymers mixed with MOFs) for gas separation. One problem could be that MOFs are relatively thermally unstable and cannot be synthesized in a typical (high-temperature) solid-state route. best Frank

[@madhapansowntarya1988]

Hello I have one doubt, actually how to we are applied mof as a building blocks?, and how could we can apply this?can you explain clearly?

[@moxopixel]

It will be used to turn salt water into fresh water

[@FrankHoffmann1000]

At least to harvest fresh water from air also in arid regions.

[@amankumar595]

Metal organic Frameworks is a which branch of chemistry? Inorganic, organic, physical, or analytical chemistry?

[@FrankHoffmann1000]

Well, the synthesis of the linkers belongs to organic chemistry, the synthesis of the MOFs is more inorganic chemistry, the analysis of their properties is either physical or analytical chemistry - i.e. multidisciplinary.

[@amankumar595]

@@FrankHoffmann1000 if i analyses in gas separation applications of MOFs that means its a physical chemistry?

[@FrankHoffmann1000]

@@amankumar595 it depends how you evaluate these properties; if you use techniques like GCMS, the apparatus fit to analytical chemistry, if you use Monte Carlo simulations it belongs to theoretical chemistry - but what is your actual question? In which way is this important?

[@amankumar595]

@@FrankHoffmann1000 i characterised surface area, FTIR, and XRD and checking adsorption using high pressure line instrument

[@bohanxu6125]

I wonder how much pressure they can sustain before they become amorphous. Is there any MOF that can sustain pressure around 10GPa?

[@FrankHoffmann1000]

No, of course, not - they are very soft materials. The prototypical MOF-5 can be irreversibly amorphized at ambient temperature by employing a low compressing pressure of 3.5 MPa; see for instance: journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.174103

[@goddog1234561j]

I research MOFs at the university of Utah!

[@FrankHoffmann1000]

Hi Kevin, nice to hear that! MOFs are such an amazing and inspiring field of research! We wish you success with your projects and all the best! Frank

[@ahmedhass146]

u r amazing