Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have garnered a significant amount of attention due to their highly crystallinity, permanent porosity, and tunable pore size. Traditional porous materials, such as zeolites with negative frameworks are widely studied for photocatalyst. Different from the microporous ionic nature of zeolites, MOFs demonstrated great potential for selective ion exchange and separation, storage and delivery. Recent advances in synthesis of anionic MOF have paved the road in this direction. Herein we propose a synthetic method to form ionic MOFs, which could serve as a platform for the ion exchange-based separation process. This ion-exchange dynamics of a series of cations and their selective encapsulation will be further discoussed and promote the MOF into a heterogeneous photocatalyst.

Immobilization of photocatalyst into metal-organic framework

249th National Meeting (2015)

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