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Metal Organic Frameworks
Design of framework structures in which metal oxides clusters act as 'joints' and the organic linkers as 'struts' to produce highly porous crystals (ca. 4,800 m2/g) with the lowest density ever recorded for a crystalline material. These ...
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Recent Leading Publications:
A route to high surface area, porosity and inclusion of large molecules in
crystals, H. Chae, D. Y. Siberio-Perez, J. Kim, Y. Go, M. Eddaoudi, A. Matzger,
M. ... |
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Metal Organic Polyhedra
Nano-sized metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs) are conveniently achieved by linking transition metal ions and either nitrogen or carboxylate donor organic units. Recently, the porosity of MOPs to gases and other molecules has been demonstrated; ...
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Recent Leading Publications:
Crystal Structure, Dissolution, and Deposition of a 5 nm Functionalized Metal-Organic
Great Rhombicuboctahedron, H. Furukawa, J. Kim, K. E. Plass, and O. M. ... |
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Covalent Organic Frameworks
The design and synthesis of crystalline extended organic structures in which the building blocks are linked together by strong covalent bonds is an undeveloped area of research. It is widely believed that the required microscopic ...
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Recent Leading Publications:
Designed Synthesis of 3-D Covalent Organic Framework, Science, 2007, 316, 268-272.
El-Kaderi, H.; Hunt, J.R.; Mendoza-Cortez, J.L.; Côt&... |
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Zeolite Imidazolate Frameworks
A large segment of the global economy (US$350 billion) is based on the use of crystalline microporous zeolites in petrochemical cracking, ion-exchange for water softening and purification, and in the separation of gases. Zeolite structures ...
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Recent Leading Publications:
Zeolite A Imidazolate Frameworks, Hayashi, H.; Côté, A.P.; Furukawa,
H.; O'Keeffe, M.; Yaghi, O.M., Nature Materials, advance online ... |
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Conducting Frameworks
Use of hydrothermal synthesis techniques to synthesize ordered metal sulfide frameworks and polyhedra in which the building blocks progressively increase in size from 5-100 Angstroms without changing their overall tetrahedral geometry. ...
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Recent Leading Publications:
Thermal conductivity of a metal-organic framework (MOF-5): Part II. Measurement,
B. L., .Huang, Z. Ni, A. Millward, A. J. H. McGaughey, C. Usher, M. Kaviany,
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Design & Materiainformatics
Given the vast number of structures that could result from assembly of molecular shapes, how do we as designers (a) identify the most important topologies that should be expected to form, (b) determine how are they distributed among known ...
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Recent Leading Publications:
Three-periodic nets and tilings: edge-transitive bimodal structures, O. Delgado-Friedericks,
M..O'Keefe, O. M. Yaghi, Acta Cryst., 2006, 62(5), ... |
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Adsorption and Hydrogen Storage
Conventional storage of large amounts of hydrogen in its molecular form is difficult and expensive because it requires employing either extremely high pressures as a gas or very low temperatures as a liquid. The desire to store hydrogen ...
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Recent Leading Publications:
Exceptional H-2 saturation uptake in microporous metal-organic frameworks,
A. G. Wong-Foy, A. J. Matzger, O. M. Yaghi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, ... |
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Carbon Dioxide Capture
Removal of CO 2 from the flue exhaust of power plants, currently a major source of emissions, is commonly accomplished by chilling and pressurizing the exhaust or by passing the fumes through a fluidized bed of aqueous amine ...
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Recent Leading Publications:
Metal-organic frameworks with exceptionally high capacity for storage of carbon
dioxide at room temperature, A. R. Millward, O. M. Yaghi, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
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Methane Storage
A strategy based on reticulating metal ions and organic carboxylate links into
extended networks has been advanced to a point that allowed the design of
porous structures in which pore size and functionality could be varied systematically....
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Recent Leading Publications:
A microporous metal-organic framework for gas-chomatographic separation of
alkanes, B. L. Chen, C. D. Liang, J. Yang, D. S. Contreras,Y. Clancy, E.
B. ... |
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