Metal–Organic Frameworks as Platforms for Functional Materials

Discoveries of novel functional materials have played very important roles to the development of science and technologies and thus to benefit our daily life. Among the diverse materials, metal-organic framework (MOF) materials are rapidly emerging as a unique type of porous and organic/inorganic hybrid materials which can be simply self-assembled from their corresponding inorganic metal ions/clusters with organic linkers, and can be straightforwardly characterized by various analytical methods. In terms of porosity, they are superior to other well-known porous materials such as zeolites and carbon materials; exhibiting extremely high porosity with surface area up to 7000 m(2)/g, tunable pore sizes, and metrics…

• WF
  Welch Foundation

  Award: AX-1730
• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 51272229, 51229201, 51432001, 51272231, 51472217
• DO
  Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems

  Award: ECCS-1407443
• NS
  Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province

  Awards: LR13E020001, LZ15E020001