POROUS METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS: FROM SYNTHESIS TO FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES

Abstract

Lying on the crossing of fundamental inorganic/organic chemistry and development of novel materials, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have become one of the most attractive research fields during the past two decades. MOFs can be self-assembled from a large number of metal ions/clusters with organic linkers and can be regarded as multifunctional materials due to a wide range of important properties. MOFs often combine properties caused by specific framework architecture, e.g. permanent porosity, selective gas sorption and separation, and chemical stability, with those ones related to the properties of inorganic building blocks, e.g. luminescence and magnetism. Here we describe our recent results on synthesis, structural characterization and investigation of multifunctional materials based on porous coordination polymers.