Tuned to Perfection: Ironing Out the Defects in Metal–Organic Framework UiO-66

Metalorganic frameworks (MOFs) are a relatively newclass of crystalline porous materials. One family of these materials that has attracted considerable attention due to their high thermal, chemical, and mechanical stability is the zirconium based MOFs of the UiO family. The material with benzene-1,4-dicarboxylic acid (BDC) as linker is named UiO-66 and is considered to be the parent of the series, from which other members are derived via isoreticular synthesis. A multitude of synthetic procedures has been reported for UiO- 66, with the majority of groups utilizing their own strategies in favor of using one from the pool of pre-existing protocols. With the exception of two recent studies in which the effect of…