MOFs for gas separation and catalysis have shown great potentials for solving exhaust emission and energy crisis issues, but the libraries of improving adsorptive and catalytic abilities of MOFs should be further stretched. Heterometallic MOFs, synthesized through synergistic effects of different metals in one crystal by our group, have shown great CO2 absorption ability due to the rich amount of open metal sites and combination of chemically dissimilar metal ions. In addition, the adsorption ability can be systematically tuned by rational design through different combinations of metal cations. Based on those results, gas separation ability of this series of MOFs will be shown here. Besides this, with different open metal sites serving as Lewis acid sites, the materials could also be potentially utilized as efficient catalyst for different reactions.<br/>

Applications of heterometallic MOFs in gas adsorption, separation and biodiesel preparation

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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