Loading MIL-53(Al) with Ag nanoparticles: Synthesis, structural stability and catalytic properties

Synthesis of hydrophobic MIL-53(Al) nanoparticles in low molecular weight alcohols: systematic investigation of solvent effects

“…Investigation of morphology by SEM SEM images of powder samples synthesised using water, DMF and MeOH before and after activation are shown in Figure 1. When water is used as the solvent for synthesis, generating MIL-53(H2O), micrometre sized (~3 µm) star-shaped particles are observed (Figure 1a+b), indicating intergrowth of orthorhombic crystals, the typical shape of MIL-53 single crystals 53,54 . After activation at high temperature, cracks and broken intergrown particles were observed (Figure 1b), presumably caused by thermal stress during the activation process.…”

Surface Hydrophobic Treatment of Water-Sensitive DUT-4 Metal–Organic Framework To Enhance Water Stability for Hydrogen Storage

“…Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a novel class of highly porous materials, which are constructed from the organic linkers and inorganic nodes. − Because of the diversity and tunability of their components and structures, MOFs have been extensively studied in gas storage and separation, − energy conversion and storage, − catalysis, − chemical sensing, − sacrificial templates for synthesizing porous structures, − and so on.…”

Controlled synthesis of highly stable zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 dodecahedra and their use towards the templated formation of a hollow Co3O4 catalyst for CO oxidation

“…1,9 The outstanding properties allow potential applications in various technological elds including gas sorption and separation, 10 molecular sieving, 11 chemical sensing, 12,13 drug delivery, 14 and heterogeneous catalysis. [15][16][17] Recently, MOFs/ZIFs have been proved to be ideal sacricial templates to fabricate hollow metal oxides such as CuO, 7 Fe 2 O 3 (ref. 18 and 19) and Co 3 O 4 (ref.…”