Synthesis and Characterizations of Novel Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)

Abstract

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an exciting class of porous crystalline materials. Although crystalline materials have received the attention of scientists since 1960s, the concept of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) began to be popularized in 1990s. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly crystalline, porous inorganic and organic hybrid materials with a giant network structure in contrast to purely inorganic zeolites, molecular sieves and purely organic activated carbons.