Growth Mechanism of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Insights into the Nucleation by Employing a Step-by-Step Route

摘要

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging, class of porous materials. MOFs are highly ordered, crystalline coordination polymers of persistent porosity with specific surface areas exceeding that of traditional adsorbents, such as zeolites and active carbons. Whereas initial research on MOFs was mainly driven by the interest to use them as gas-storage (e.g. CH4, H2, CO2) materials, various other applications were proposed and demonstrated, including separation, sensing, catalysis, drug release, and the embedding of (metal and metal oxide) nanoparticles.