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Metal–Organic Frameworks and Their Applications

2019; Wiley; Volume: 14; Issue: 20 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/asia.201901288

1861-4728

Parimal K. Bharadwaj, Pingyun Feng, Stefan Kaskel, Qiang Xü,

Machine Learning in Materials Science

What a collection! This special issue contains latest works on MOFs and MOF-based materials from various research groups from across the world. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), also known as porous coordination polymers (PCPs), are an emerging class of porous materials. Due to their structural and functional tunability and diversity as well as their rich applications, the field of MOFs is rapidly growing not only in chemistry but in materials science also. This has been demonstrated by the ever increasing number of publications on MOFs and its citations, which is a result of the constant expansion of research scope and interdiscilpinary researcher engagements. With the maturation of the synthetic methodology, structural characterization, and functionality modification, MOF research has entered into a new era, with great efforts dedicated to their applications in a variety of directions. Here, we are greatly honored to assemble a compendium of the latest works on MOFs and their applications. This special issue includes contributions from thirty-four groups whose researches range from the design, synthesis, and characterization of MOFs and MOF-based materials, including MOF composites and MOF-derived materials, to their applications in a variety of directions. Six Minireview articles present overviews on MOF-based materials for applications towards separation and thermo- and electrocatalysis. Six Communications and twenty-two Full Papers report new research results on the synthesis of MOFs and MOF-based materials in an abundant variety of structures for a broad range of applications. We hope that this special issue will provide the readers some representative and exciting views regarding the new developments and applications of MOFs and MOF-based materials. Due to the dynamic nature of this rapidly-growing field, it is impossible to cover all aspects of this field, especially those recent achievements by research groups not involved in the preparation of this special issue. There is no doubt that the research field of MOFs for applications will continue to expand, with contributions from not only chemists, but also material scientists and engineers. We hope that readers will enjoy the scope of topics presented here and perhaps find inspiration to push this field to the next stage. Parimal Kanti Bharadwaj received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1979. After spending a year at the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a UNESCO Fellow, he moved to Rutgers University, NJ, USA. At Rutgers, he was first a postdoc and then became Assistant Professor (non-tenure track). In 1985, he moved to University of California, Davis where he worked as a Senior Research Associate before joining IIT Kanpur in December 1987. He became a full professor in 1995. Presently, he is an emeritus professor at IITK and a distinguished visiting professor of chemistry at IIT Bombay. He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy. His area of research is supramolecular chemistry. Pingyun Feng received her PhD in 1998 from Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). After two years of postdoctoral study at Department of Chemical Engineering, UCSB, She joined University of California at Riverside in 2000. Feng's research focuses on the synthesis, characterization and application of various types of functional porous materials. These materials range from porous metal–organic framework materials to high-surface area metal chalcogenides framework materials. She received the Beckman Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and Alfred P. Sloan Fellow award. Most recently she received the 2017 F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry. Qiang Xu received his PhD in 1994 from Osaka University. He is the director of AIST-Kyoto University Chemical Energy Materials Open Innovation Laboratory (ChEM-OIL), adjunct professor at Kyoto University/Kobe University, specially-appointed professor at Yangzhou University, and distinguished honorary professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ), European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), and National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). His research interests include the chemistry of nanostructured materials (including MOFs) and their applications, especially for catalysis and energy. Stefan Kaskel studied chemistry and received his Ph.D. degree in 1997 at Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen (Germany). As a Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation he worked with J. Corbett at Ames Laboratory, USA (1998-2000) on intermetallic compounds. He was a group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim a.d. Ruhr (2000-2004) in the group of F. Schüth and after his habilitation at Ruhr University (Bochum) in 2004 in the area of heterogeneous catalysis, he became full professor for Inorganic Chemistry at Technical University Dresden. Since 2008 he is also business field leader at Fraunhofer IWS, Dresden. His research interests are focused on porous and nanostructured materials (synthesis, structure, function) for applications in energy storage, batteries, catalysis, and separation technologies. He has been working on MOFs and porous carbon materials, CVD, CNTs, adsorption, batteries and printing. He received the nanotechnology award of the German Ministry of Science and Education in 2002 and the JSPS award from Japan in 2016. He was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher 2016, 2017 and 2018. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), and head of the International Zeolite Association MOF commission.