Metal-organic Frameworks for Energy Applications

摘要

The science of porous materials has become one of the most challenging issues for chemists and physicists.The innovation for the synthesis of hybrid porous materials emerged at the beginning of the 1990s with the self-assembly of inorganic metal cations with organic linkers to form a network in the appropriate topology. Such metal-organic frameworks (MOF) attracted much attention due to their unusual structure and properties as well as their potential applications. In 1997, Kitagawa and his coworkers first reported gas adsorption on metal-organic frameworks. In 2003, Yaghi and his co-workers first explored metal-organic frameworks as H2 storage materials. Since that time, the metal-organic frameworks have become one of the most promising hydrogen storage materials. Furthermore, MOFs provide many opportunities for carbon dioxide sequestration. In addition, the metal-organic frameworks are attracting attention in catalysis.