Crystalline porous materials: from zeolites to metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)

摘要

As a class of important crystalline porous materials, zeolites which were first found in 1756 have now been widely used in chemical industries for catalysis, adsorption and separation. 35232 patents with the title including "zeolite*" are documented by Derwent Innovations Index on January 2,2020 . Despite of spread applications of zeolites and related-materials in industry, fundamental research of zeolites and their applications are still desired in both academia and industry, as shown in Fig. 1. Roughly 30271 publications with "zeolite*" in titles are recorded by the Web of Science Core Collection on January 2, 2020 [2]. Among the top 10 organizations with the large number of publications on "zeolite", six (6) are from China, namely Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Acad Sci), Dalian University of Technology (Dalian Univ Technol), Jilin University (Jilin Univ), Zhejiang University (Zhejiang Univ), China University of Petroleum (China Univ Petr) and Fudan University (Fudan Univ), as shown in Table 1.