Kinetic Assembly of a Thermally Stable Porous Coordination Network

Br2 induced oxidative pore modification of a porous coordination network.

Iodinated pores of a Zn-based coordination network were modified by Br2 oxidation to produce brominated pores in a polycrystalline-to-polycrystalline manner while maintaining the same network topology. Ab initio X-ray powder diffraction analysis and Raman spectroscopy revealed that the brominated pore can trap Br2 or I2 by strong σ/π-type interactions. A kinetic study in solution revealed that ...

Aqueous sodium borohydride induced thermally stable porous zirconium oxide for quick removal of lead ions.

Aqueous sodium borohydride (NaBH4) is well known for its reducing property and well-established for the development of metal nanoparticles through reduction method. In contrary, this research paper discloses the importance of aqueous NaBH4 as a precipitating agent towards development of porous zirconium oxide. The boron species present in aqueous NaBH4 play an active role during gelation as wel...

Thermally Stable Metal-Organic Framework-Templated Synthesis of Hierarchically Porous Metal Sulfides: Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production.

Porous nanostructured materials are demonstrated to be very promising in catalysis due to their well accessible active sites. Thermally stable metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as hard templates are successfully utilized to afford porous metal oxides and subsequently metal sulfides by a nanocasting method. The resultant metal oxides/sulfides show considerable Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface ...

Transparent, thermally stable and mechanically robust superhydrophobic surfaces made from porous silica capsules.

Thermally Stable Gel Polymer Electrolytes

Hyperstructured Organic Materials Research Center, Department of Chemical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul 121-742, Korea Samsung SDI Company, Limited, Energy Development Team, Corporate Research and Development Center, Yongin-City, Kyonggi-Do 449-742, Korea Battery and Fuel Cell Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 130-650, Korea Center for Electrochemical Eng...