Crystalline nanoporous materials serve many pivotal functions in industrial chemistry. They bring numerous crucial features into industrial applications, such as uniform porosity, high surface area, inter-connected pore/channel system, accessible pore volume, high adsorption capacity, ion-exchange ability, enhanced catalytic activity, and shape/size selectivity. As a well-established family of nanoporous materials, zeolites have already been of vital importance for the production of liquid transportation fuels for decades. As an emerging class of porous materials, metal organic frameworks (MOFs) offer promise in a variety of applications and can play a significant role in fields that are critical for the future of our industrialized society. In global efforts to transition into other transportation fuels such as Hydrogen and Methane, MOFs can serve as the energy storage media. Even though it is a relatively new member of the porous solids family, MOF research has expanded with an astonishing pace in the last decade and the number of patents and publications has been increasing exponentially. There are already hundreds of different MOFs reported in literature, resulting in a library of structure types with chemical versatility and compositional diversity. In this contribution, an industrial perspective on the synthesis and utilization of nanoporous materials for current and future applications will be presented. Among this long list of applications, the focus will be on our experience with MOFs as clean energy carriers.

Nanoporous materials for energy applications: An industrial perspective

246th National Meeting (2013)

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