Postsynthetic Tuning of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Targeted Applications

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are periodic, hybrid, atomically well-defined porous materials that typically form by self-assembly and consist of inorganic nodes (metal ions or clusters) and multitopic organic linkers. MOFs as a whole offer many intriguing properties, including ultrahigh porosity, tunable chemical functionality, and low density. These properties point to numerous potential applications, including gas storage, chemical separations, catalysis, light harvesting, and chemical sensing, to name a few. Reticular chemistry, or the linking of molecular building blocks into predetermined network structures, has been employed to synthesize thousands of MOFs. Given the vast library of candidate nodes and…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Energy

  Awards: FG02-03ER15457, DE-FG02-87ER13808, DE-SC0001059, FG02-87ER13808, DE-FG02-, DE-SC0012702, DE-FG02-03ER15457, DE-FG02
• NU
  Northwestern University

  Award: DE-FG02-03ER15457
• OO
  Office of Science

  Awards: DE-FG02-87ER13808, DE-SC0001059, DE-FG02-03ER15457, DE-SC0012702