Metal organic frameworks (MOF)have emerged as exciting materials with potential applications in gas storage, drug delivery and scaffolds fornanoscale devices.  We havediscovered a series of MOFs that can be formed under mild conditions usingalkali metal cations and carbohydrate-based struts from renewable sources.  This new MOF is permanently porous(1000-1200 m2/g surface area), capable of storing small organicmolecules, and because it can be synthesized from food grade startingmaterials, a promising vector for drug delivery. 

Nanoporous carbohydrate frameworks

239th National Meeting (2010)

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