title: De facto methodologies toward the synthesis and scale-up production of UiO-66-type metal-organic frameworks and membrane materials.
abstract: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are architected via coordination bonds between inorganic metal nodes and organic ligands. They have become emerging advanced porous materials and gained ever-increasing attention in the past decade. In particular, overwhelming studies have been devoted to those hydrostable MOFs which are suggested to be highly promising for industrial applications. UiO-66 is such a unique MOF because of its superior thermal/chemical stability and structural tunability. However, its repeatable, green, and scale-up synthesis remains a challenge for its commercialization and implementation in industrial applications. This perspective mainly summarises the recent development in the synthesis of UiO-66-type MOFs and their related composites. From a scale-up viewpoint, we also present some important advances in the batch and continuous reactor synthesis toward their massive production (226 references).
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, 117585, Singapore. chezhao@nus.edu.sg.
authors.forename: Zhigang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhao