Stability Improvement Methods and Application Progress of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Abstract

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a kind of product produced with a combination of an inorganic metal center and a bridged organic ligand. Because of its porosity and high specific surface area, it has attracted much attention. However, due to the metal center and coordination bond is affected readily by other environmental factors, MOFs materials have relatively poor stability, which severely hampers its application in various fields. In this research, two ways of improving stability are summarized, one is via de novo synthesis, and the other is through post-synthetic modification to improve the stability of MOFs. Moreover, MOFs and its application fields, including gas separation and storage, catalysis, medicine, sensing, rechargeable batteries and capacitors production, are prospected.