Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of microporous, crystalline materials with potential applications in the capture, storage, and separation of gases. Of the many known MOFs, MOF-5 has attracted considerable attention because of its ability to store gaseous fuels at low pressure with high densities. Nevertheless, MOF-5 and several other MOFs exhibit limited stability upon exp...

Title of Document: SYNTHESIS OF ZEOLITE@MOF NANOPOROUS COMPOSITES AS BIFUNCTIONAL CATALYSTS Guanghui Zhu, Master of Science, 2014 Directed By: Professor, Dr. Dongxia Liu, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering And Professor, Dr. Kyu Yong Choi, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering As nanoporous materials, zeolite and metal organic framework (MOF) share common characte...

A novel, highly active catalyst Ni@MOF-5 showed unexpected activity at low temperature for CO2 methanation. The characterization results indicated that Ni was uniformly and highly dispersed over MOF-5. This catalyst showed high stability and almost no deactivation in long term stability tests up to 100 h.

The high surface areas and tunable properties of metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) make them attractive materials for applications in catalysis and the capture, storage, and separation of gases. Nevertheless, the limited stability of some MOFs under humid conditions remains a point of concern. Understanding the atomic-scale mechanisms associated with MOF hydrolysis will aid in the design of new c...

The metal nodes in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are known to act as Lewis acid catalysts, but few reports have explored their ability to mediate reactions that require electron transfer. The unique chemical environments at the nodes should facilitate unusual redox chemistry, but the difficulty in synthesizing MOFs with metal ions in reduced oxidation states has precluded such studies. Herein...

Electroreduction of oxoanions affords hydroxide equivalents that induce selective deposition of crystalline metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on conductive surfaces. The method is illustrated by cathodic electrodeposition of Zn(4)O(BDC)(3) (MOF-5; BDC = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate), which is deposited at room temperature in only 15 min under cathodic potential. Although many crystalline phases are k...

An efficient synthetic route to an A1/A2-difunctionalized pillar[5]arene containing resolvable planar chirality has been developed and the arene employed as a strut in the synthesis of P5A-MOF-1, which has been demonstrated by X-ray powder diffraction analysis--supported by modeling--to be isoreticular with MOF-5. This metal-organic framework has an active domain that expresses good and selecti...