ABSTRACT
Due to high specific surface area and large pore size/volume, coordination polymers (e.g. metal-organic frameworks (MOF)) have been viewed as promising candidates in host-guest systems such as drug delivery, catalysis, sensing, pollutant and heavy metal removal, and gas storage. MOFs have been successfully employed for storage of wide variety of gases for instance CO2, H2, CH4, C2H2, NH3, H2S, SO2 etc. For development of H2-based renewable energy systems, safely storage of H2 in suitable porous materials is still challenging. Numerous parameters were found to be effective in the H2 storage capacity (via chemisorption and physisorption) in MOFs such as preparation and activation, morphology and size, surface area and pore volume, catenation, structural functionalization, spillover, etc. This chapter discusses the recent advances in the field of H2 storage using various MOFs.
