The mesoporous metal-organic frameworks are a family of materials that have pore sizes ranging from 2 to 50 nm, which have shown promising applications in catalysis, adsorption, chemical sensing and so on. The preparation of mesoporous metal-organic frameworks usually needs the supramolecular or cooperative template strategy. Here we report the template-free assembly of mesoporous metal-organic...

2009 Metal–organic frameworks issue Reviewing the latest developments across the interdisciplinary area of metal–organic frameworks from an academic and industrial perspective Please take a look at the issue 5 table of contents to access the other reviews. This critical review covers the application of computer simulations, including quantum calculations (ab initio and DFT), grand canonical Mon...

We consider two metal-organic frameworks as identical if they share the same bond network respecting the atom types. An algorithm is presented that decides whether two metal-organic frameworks are the same. It is based on distinguishing structures by comparing a set of descriptors that is obtained from the bond network. We demonstrate our algorithm by analyzing the CoRe MOF database of DFT opti...

Xuan Zhang Advisor: Prof. Kim R. Dunbar Apr. 16, 2012 Room 2102 Ever since its appearance about 17 years ago, 1 the term Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) has been gaining tremendous attention in chemistry and crystal engineering because of the fascinating solid state materials it pertains to. These MOFs, also known as porous coordination polymers (PCPs) are characterized by their high porosity, ...

Plasmonic metal-organic frameworks are composite nanoparticles comprising plasmonic metal (NPs) embedded within a framework (MOF) matrix. As result, not only the functionalities of individual components retained, but synergistic effects additionally provide improved chemical and physical properties. Recent progress in MOFs has demonstrated potential for nanofabrication various nanotechnology ap...