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Chemistry World
November 6, 2011
Laura Howes |
Predicting the Perfect MOF A collaboration between theoreticians and synthetic chemists in the US has led to a new understanding of metal-organic frameworks and some promising new compounds for methane storage.   |
Chemistry World
November 14, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
A MOF that goes off with a bang The versatility of metal -- organic frameworks has been explosively demonstrated by chemists in China who have synthesized highly energetic three-dimensional MOFs. |
Chemistry World
August 31, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
MOFs with a heart of glass Metal -- organic frameworks have long been the preserve of the solid state domain, but a group of scientists have now produced a molten MOF and cooled it to form a unique glass. |
Chemistry World
May 5, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
Keeping MOF pores open wide Chemists have developed a way of preventing metal-organic frameworks - hugely porous materials with enormous potential for storing a range of molecules and other structures - from 'clogging up' during synthesis. |
Chemistry World
April 30, 2015
Simon Hadlington |
Floppy polymer defies convention to form rigid framework Chemists in the US have turned received wisdom on its head by using floppy, linear polymers to construct a rigid, crystalline, three-dimensional metal -- organic framework. |
Chemistry World
August 17, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
A MOF you can scoff Chemists have accidentally discovered a new type of metal organic framework, or MOF, which is made from edible components. |
Chemistry World
April 28, 2011
Elinor Richards |
Hardy MOFs endure extreme conditions The most chemically and thermally stable metal-organic frameworks yet have been made by a team in the US. |
Chemistry World
August 28, 2012
James Mitchell Crow |
MOF smashes gas storage ceiling Highly porous materials being developed as future fuel tanks for hydrogen- or methane-powered vehicles could hold much more gas than previously thought. |
Chemistry World
July 19, 2012
Helen Gray |
MOF gate opens selective CO2 gas storage door UK researchers have designed a metal -- organic framework that, unusually, selectively adsorbs CO 2 over ethyne by a dynamic gate-opening mechanism and has potential applications in fuel gas separation. |
Chemistry World
March 8, 2013
Yuandi Li |
High-capacity MOF shows clean fuel promise Scientists in Evanston, Illinois, and in Gaithersburg, Maryland have synthesized a metal organic framework in gram-scale quantities that has 67% of the deliverable storage density of gas cylinders, but at only a quarter of the pressure. |
Chemistry World
February 23, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
MOFs make light work of it UK researchers have discovered a new use for metal-organic frameworks -- as potential lighting devices. |
Chemistry World
June 25, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Porous materials break out of covalent cage Porous materials made from small molecular cages, rather than rigidly bonded frameworks, could be easier to process and have more tunable performance, say UK researchers. |
Chemistry World
September 7, 2009 |
Bolt-on MOF catalysts Chemists in the US have shown that a class of hugely porous materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can have catalytic functions bolted onto the structure after it has been constructed to produce efficient catalysts that can be easily recovered and cycled many times. |
Chemistry World
August 13, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Picky MOF crystals show promise For the first time, researchers have modified metal-organic frameworks to selectively capture large organic molecules. |
Chemistry World
June 28, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
A Cool Way to Store Hydrogen? Theoretical chemists in the US have suggested a rather more commonplace solution to store hydrogen: ice. |
Chemistry World
February 18, 2015
Emma Stephen |
Nanoporous methane storage -- an impossible target? Methane could reduce global dependence on oil so the search is on for nanoporous materials to act as fuel tanks for this tricky-to-store gas, but things are not looking promising. |
Chemistry World
July 8, 2015
Polly Wilson |
MOF blends oxidizer with fuel for a precise bang Scientists in the UK and Turkey have devised a new way to make explosive materials in a safer, simpler and more consistent manner. |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2015
Victoria Richards |
Spicing up MOFs Curcumin is top of the ingredients list for a highly porous metal -- organic framework being developed by scientists in China that demonstrates a unique co-release drug delivery system. |
Chemistry World
October 18, 2009
Hayley Birch |
Conducting MOFs make membranes for fuel cells New crystalline compounds could yield better materials for fuel cell applications, according to Canadian scientists. |
Chemistry World
November 4, 2010
Mike Brown |
World's smallest chromatography column Single metal-organic framework crystals can be used to separate mixtures of dyes just like a miniature chromatography column, say scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World
February 4, 2011 |
MOF magnets deliver drugs German scientists have encapsulated nanomagnets inside metal organic frameworks. The MOF magnets can be filled with a drug, which is released when a magnetic field is applied. |
Chemistry World
June 9, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
Super sponges soak up gas Researchers in the US have shown that a recently discovered class of compound based on light elements can store gas at least as efficiently as the most promising metal organic framework candidates. |
Chemistry World
December 2, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Chemical barcodes made from MOFs By varying the amount of luminescent lanthanides, the novel metal-organic frameworks are coded to emit a unique spectrum of light that can be read like a fingerprint. |
Chemistry World
March 13, 2013
Jennifer Newton |
Removing toxic chemicals with POPs In a search for alternatives to the filters used in gas masks, researchers at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, have joined forces with scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Maryland, to investigate a series of porous organic polymers bearing metal-catecholate groups. |
Chemistry World
August 11, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Swellable polymer sponges up CO 2 A porous polymer 'sponge' that absorbs carbon dioxide by swelling up has been developed by scientists in the UK. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Crack-proofing MOF membranes Chinese chemists have developed a way to reinforce metal-organic framework-based membranes to toughen them against cracking. |
Chemistry World
August 2, 2013
Jennifer Newton |
If everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry Cafer Yavuz is a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon. His groups design and make new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to offer sustainable solutions for energy and environmental issues. |
Chemistry World
November 13, 2015
Kira Welter |
First permanently porous liquid created Liquids with permanent porosity were created by combining a functionalized organic cage molecule and a bulky solvent |
Chemistry World
November 13, 2014
Katrina Kramer |
Persuading proteins to form porous polyhedra Researchers in the US have designed a hollow cube out of naturally occurring proteins, something that was previously only possible with DNA. |
Chemistry World
February 12, 2015
James Urquhart |
MOF sensor sniffs out ammonia An electronic device that exploits the semiconducting properties of a two dimensional metal-organic framework, a material analagous to graphene, has been made for the first time. |
Chemistry World
March 19, 2014
Jon Cartwright |
Computer memory made from sugar cube The sugar-based metal -- organic framework infused with rubidium hydroxide can be switched between high and low resistance states, in a similar way to resistive random-access memory. |
Chemistry World
September 20, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Catalytic Polyoxometalate Plays Hide and Seek in MOF Chemists in the US have managed to enhance a catalyst that can be used to destroy toxic or smelly chemicals in the air. |
Chemistry World
April 7, 2015
Hugh Cowley |
The Goldilocks of heterogeneous catalysis An international team of scientists has tethered palladium to a metal -- organic framework support using thiol groups normally associated with catalyst poisoning |
