There has been a rapid development in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), especially porous MOFs, due to their high potential for diverse applications in the past decade, especially for clean energy. Recently, we have successfully synthesized a number of new porous MOFs and found their new applications as catalysts, as supports for metal nanoparticles and as templates/precursors for nanoporous carbon synthesis, as well as for large molecule separation. Novel porous metal-organic frameworks have been synthesized, which present stable catalytic activities for the oxidation of CO to CO<sub>2</sub>. Metal nanoparticles (NPs) have been immobilized to MOFs by the solid-grinding method, impregnation method and double-solvents approach in combination with the H<sub>2</sub> reduction, liquid-phase concentration-controlled reduction and the CO-directed reduction at the solid-gas interface, which exhibit excellent catalytic performances for various reactions, including hydrogen generation from chemical hydrides. Porous carbons have been synthesized by using MOFs as templates/precursors and the resultant carbons display high specific surface areas and excellent electrochemical properties as electrode materials for electric double-layered capacitor (EDLC) and as catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). This talk will discuss the energy applications of MOFs.

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as a platform for energy applications

255th National Meeting (2018)

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