Carbon Dioxide Capture on Metal-organic Frameworks with Amide-decorated Pores

Abstract

CO2 is the main greenhouse gas emitted from the combustion of fossil fuels and is considered a threat in the context of global warming. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) schemes embody a group of technologies for the capture of CO2 from power plants, followed by compression, transport, and permanent storage. Key advances in recent years include the further development of new types of porous materials with high affinity and selectivity toward CO2 for optimizing the energy penalty of capture. In this regard, microporous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) represent an opportunity to create next-generation materials that are optimized for real-world applications in CO2 capture. MOFs have great potential in CCS because they can store greater amounts of CO2 than other classes of porous materials, and their chemically-adjustable organic and inorganic moieties can be carefully pre-designed to be suitable for molecular recognition of CO2. Taking into account the nature of physisorption and inherent polarity of CO2 molecules, addressing materials with both a large surface area and polar pores for strong CO2 binding affinity is an effective method. Decorating the pores of MOFs with some specific functional groups by directly using functionalized organic linkers or postsynthetic modification, that have high binding affinity to CO2 molecules, is among the most promising strategies has been pursued to achieve high-performance CO2 uptake. This review highlights the literature reported on MOFs with amide-decorated pores for CO2 capture, showing the effects of amide groups on uptake capacity, selectivity and adsorption enthalpies of CO2.