Strategies for Pore Engineering in Zirconium Metal-Organic Frameworks

Design and synthesis of porous structures with desired environments are essential for many energy-related industrial applications including separation, storage, and catalysis. From a perspective of synthetic chemistry, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are regarded as a series of crystalline porous structures that are highly tunable over their components and pore spaces. The presence of labile or reactive sites including labile coordination bonds and dynamic covalent bonds enables researchers to precisely tune the pore environments for guest recognition and capture. Herein, we focus on the synthetic methodology of Zr-MOFs in the aspect of pore construction, combination, partitioning, and functionalization. The methods presented here are also expected to be applicable to MOFs based on other metals, which shall give important guidance on the synthesis of increasingly complex functional MOFs for a variety of practical applications.

Duke Scholars

Author Liang Feng Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materia ...