Bioinspired Porous Materials

Explosives detection using nanoporous coatings

“…Nanoporous solids are extensively used in industry, in areas such as catalysis, detergents, separations and medical applications [3][4]. During the past decade a number of breakthroughs in the design and processing of novel porous materials has taken place, driven by the rapid growth of emerging applications [5][6] ,such as energy conversion and storage, environmentally friendly catalysis, sensors, tissue engineering, DNA sequencing, drug delivery, medical diagnosis, and photonics. The emergence of such new technological applications requires a higher level of control over the properties of porous structures.…”

The Growth of Photoactive Porphyrin-Based MOF Thin Films Using the Liquid-Phase Epitaxy Approach and Their Optoelectronic Properties

“…Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are ordered synthetic porous solids with a high degree of long-range order [1,2,3,4]. They are chemically versatile, structurally and chemically stable, and have found their way in a wide range of applications including gas separation, gas storage, and catalysis [5,6,7,8].…”

“…They are chemically versatile, structurally and chemically stable, and have found their way in a wide range of applications including gas separation, gas storage, and catalysis [5,6,7,8]. This flexibility, unparalleled in other classes of microporous materials, originates from their rational design and versatile chemistry based on both the well-established metal coordination modes and the control of organic linker topologies through the application of reticular chemistry [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. This approach allows a sheer number of combinations of metal ions and organic “linker” groups to be explored and in turn enables the design of pore size and shape and imparting chemical functionality so as to meet a wide range of technological application needs [7,8,9,10].…”

“…One important characteristic of MOFs is that their self-assembly can be controlled through the appropriate choice of organic linkers and metal ions/clusters building blocks, that leads to the growth of an MOF with two- or three-dimensional structures. A diverse range of chemical building blocks are employed not only to control the way in which MOFs assemble in space but also to impart them with multifunctional characteristics including tailored optical and electronic properties [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. The presence of inorganic clusters connected to organic linkers possessing complexing and chelating groups such as carboxylates and nitrogen-containing compounds affords the ability to absorb sunlight both in the ultraviolet region and the visible spectral regions [9,10,11].…”

Topology-directed design of porous organic frameworks and their advanced applications

“…SiO 4 and AlO 4 ). 2 Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), also known as porous coordination polymers (PCPs), are crystalline compounds consisting of metal ions or clusters coordinated to often rigid organic molecules to form one-, two-, or three-dimensional structures that can be porous. 3 Great achievements in the field of zeolite and MOF materials have been witnessed by a library of their diverse and aesthetically pleasing structures with a large pore size range (from 0.3 to 3 nm); and the parallel exploitation of their important uses in various domains, such as adsorbents, storage/separation, catalysis, optical/magnetic devices, chemical sensors, and biological applications, which are benefitted from their specific properties (for instance, well-defined pores, high surface areas, unique surface property and adsorption affinity).…”