Research

Nanoporous Coordination Polymers

Extended solids comprised of inorganic and organic components are attracting considerable attention because of their exceptional properties, chemical tailorability, and broad range of potential applications. Recently, a new class of nanoporous coordination polymers known as metal organic frameworks (MOFs) was created that have immense potential for understanding and exploiting molecular interactions in pores. MOFs are crystalline materials with tunable, monolithic pore sizes and cavity properties. Their properties exceed those of virtually all other porous materials, including the highest surface area for a crystalline material, tunable photoluminescence, and high capacity for molecular adsorption. These exciting properties are achieved by coupling inorganic clusters with tunable organic ligands that serve as struts, allowing facile manipulation of pore size and surface area through ligand selection.

Our MOF research addresses the following topics:

• MOFs for Electronic Devices and Photovoltaics
  • Tunable Electric Conductivity in Metal-Organic Framework Thin-Film Devices
  • MOF-based electronic and opto-electronic devices
  • MOF Roadmap for electronic devices
  • Novel metal-organic framework linkers for light harvesting applications
  • Energy and charge transfer by donor-acceptor pairs confined in a metal-organic framework
• Thin films and integration with MEMS sensors
  • Charge-transfer guest interactions in luminiscent MOFs: Implications for solid-state temperature and environmental sensing
  • Noble gas adsorption in MOFs containing metal sites
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks for Sensing Applications
  • Ultrasensitive Humidity Detection Using Metal-Organic FrameworkCoated Microsensors
  • Kinetics and mechanism of metal–organic framework thin film growth: systematic investigation of HKUST-1 deposition on QCM electrodes
  • Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulation of Low-Pressure Methane Adsorption in Nanoporous Framework Materials for Sensing Applications
  • Stress-Induced Chemical Detection Using Flexible Metal-Organic Frameworks
• Luminescent MOFs for chemical and radiation detection
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks for Sensing Applications
  • Charge-transfer guest interactions in luminescent MOFs: implications for solid-state temperature and environmental sensing
  • Assessing the Purity of Metal-Organic Frameworks Using Photoluminescence
  • Chem Soc Rev 2009 Metal–organic frameworks
  • Influence of Connectivity and Porosity on Ligand-Based Luminescence in Zinc Metal-Organic Frameworks
• Storage and separation of weakly interacting gases
  • Effects of Polarizability on the Adsorption of Noble Gases at Low Pressures in Monohalogenated Isoreticular Metal-Organic Frameworks
  • Complete Series of Monohalogenated Isoreticular Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and the Importance of Activation Method
• MOFs as templates for nanoparticle synthesis and stabilization
  • Small Particles for Solving Big Problems: Using MOFs for Nanoparticle Synthesis
  • Ordered metal nanostructures using MOFs
  • Silver nanoclusters in MOFs
• Metal hydride nanoparticles for hydrogen storage
  • Reversible Hydrogen Storage by NaAlH4 Confined within a Titanium-Functionalized MOF-74(Mg) Nanoreactor
  • Thermodynamics and kinetics of NaAlH4 nanocluster decomposition