화학공학소재연구정보센터
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Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.115, 1-11, November, 2022
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2022.07.047  Export Citation
Microporous metal–organic frameworks: Synthesis and applications
Mahnaz Ahmadi1, Maryam Ebrahimnia1, Mohammad-Ali Shahbazi2, 3, Rüstem Keçili4, †, and Fatemeh Ghorbani-Bidkorbeh1, †
  • 1Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  • 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands
  • 3W.J. Kolff Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Groningen/ University Medical Center Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
  • 4Department of Medical Services and Techniques, Anadolu University Yunus Emre Vocational School of Health Services, 26470 Eskisehir, Turkey
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as porous hybrid materials composed of metal ions and organic ligands. MOFs have attracted the attention of many researchers due to their promising characteristics, including high porosity, surface area, and drug loading capacity, tunable pore size and structure, good biodegradability and biocompatibility, and ease of functionalization. MOFs are categorized into three groups based on their pore widths, including microporous, mesoporous, and macroporous MOFs. MOFs with micropores have shown special features. The internal pore widths of microporous MOFs are less than 2 nm, which leads to their high porosity and surface area. Microporous MOFs could be synthesized through different strategies, including modulator-induced defect-formation, structure-directing agents, pillared-layer assembly, bridging helical chain secondary building units, coordination capabilities of P@O moieties in the structure of a ligand, and using octahedral cage-like building units. Because of their unique properties, microporous MOFs have shown great potential for many applications such as separation, storage, catalysis, and sensing. A description of synthesis approaches and applications of microporous MOFs in recent years is provided in this review.
Keywords:Microporous MOFs;Synthesis;Storage;Separation;Catalyst;Sensing
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