Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Storage and Separation: What, How, and Why?
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been emerging as promising multifunctional materials and have shown particularly useful applications for gas storage and separation. We have briefly outlined the early development of this very active research field to provide us a clear picture on what are MOFs and how the research endeavor has been initiated and explored. Following that, we have demonstrated why MOFs are so unique for gas storage and separation: high porosities, tunable framework structures, and immobilized functional sites to fully make use of pore space for gas storage, to optimize their sieving effects, and to differentiate their interactions with gas molecules. Finally, we have provided a perspective on further development of porous MOFs for gas storage and separation.
†Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States.
Bin
B
Li
†Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States.
Hui-Min
HM
Wen
‡NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-6102, United States.|§Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States.
Wei
W
Zhou
†Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States.
Banglin
B
Chen