resumo
After three decades of intense and fundamental research on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), is there anything left to say or to explain? The synthesis and properties of MOFs have already been comprehensively described elsewhere. It is time, however, to prove the nature of their true usability: technological applications based on these extended materials require development and implementation as a natural consequence of the up-to-known intensive research focused on their design and preparation. The current large number of reviews on MOFs emphasizes practical strategies to develop novel networks with varied crystal size, shape and topology, being mainly devoted to academic concerns. The present survey intends to push the boundaries and summarise the state-of-the-art on the preparation of promising (multi) functional MOFs in worldwide laboratories and their use as materials for industrial implementation. This review starts, on the one hand, to describe several tools and striking examples of remarkable and recent (multi) functional MOFs exhibiting outstanding properties (e.g., in gas adsorption and separation, selective sorption of harmful compounds, heterogeneous catalysis, luminescent and corrosion protectants). On the other hand, and in a second part, it intends to use these examples of MOFs to incite scientists to move towards the transference of knowledge from the laboratories to the industry. Within this context, we exhaustively review the many efforts of several worldwide commercial companies to bring functional MOFs towards the daily use, analysing the various patents and applications reported to date. Overall, this review goes from the very basic concepts of functional MOF engineering and preparation ending up in their industrial production on a large scale and direct applications in society.
palavras-chave
ZEOLITIC IMIDAZOLATE FRAMEWORKS; POROUS COORDINATION POLYMERS; HYDROGEN STORAGE CAPACITY; CARBON-DIOXIDE CAPTURE; HIGH METHANE STORAGE; CO2 CAPTURE; ADSORPTION PROPERTIES; AEROBIC OXIDATION; ROOM-TEMPERATURE; BUILDING-BLOCKS
categoria
Chemistry
autores
Silva, P; Vilela, SMF; Tome, JPC; Paz, FAA
nossos autores
Filipe Alexandre Almeida Paz
Investigador Principal
Patrícia Rodrigues da Silva
Bolseiro de investigação
Sérgio Manuel Felipe Vilela
Bolseiro de pós-Doutoramentoagradecimentos
We are grateful to Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal), the European Union, QREN, FEDER under the PT2020 partnership agreement, associated laboratory CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials (Ref. FCT UID/CTM/50011/2013) and QOPNA research unit (Ref. FCT UID/QUI/00062/2013) for their general funding scheme. We further wish to thank FCT for funding the R&D FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-041282 (Ref. FCT EXPL/CTM/-NAN/0013/2013) and for the postdoctoral research scholarship No. SFRH/BPD/94381/2013 (to SMFV).