With high surface areas and synthetic tunability that can tailor the porosity and functionality, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been explored for many practical applications. As their name stands for, MOFs consist of metal and organic linker components to construct the framework; and thus, each component can contribute intrinsic properties of the MOF products. Despite numerous reported MOFs, most MOFs often suffer from poor chemical stability when utilized for practical applications. Therefore, there have been accompanying needs to address chemical stability in MOF research. Herein we will review our methodology to stable MOF platforms with desired functionalities with an emphasis on their chemical dynamics. Additionally, another MOF platform will be briefly presented to show how metals can play a significant role in tailoring intrinsic properties of the MOF materials. Both examples not only demonstrated advantages of using our approaches to tailor the properties of MOFs but also exemplify how useful a MOF system can be as a platform to study from fundamental chemistry to unexplored applications.

Tailoring properties of metal-organic frameworks

254th National Meeting (2017)

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