ABSTRACT
Many advantages of mesoporous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for adsorption-based applications such as separation, purification, chromatography, catalysis, and so on are expected to contribute to the development of respective emerging industrial technologies. Basolite F300 is the most important commercially available mesoporous MOF, and its industrial-scale manufacturing has been described by researchers from Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (BASF). Terephthalic acid is widely used in industrial organic synthesis as a precursor of the polyethylene terephthalate ester (PETE) polymer, which is widely used to make consumer goods such as clothes and plastic bottles. In a recent review paper, academic research on the antimicrobial properties of MOFs was summarized; there are only few pertinent reports on mesoporous MOFs. Nevertheless, emerging applications of mesoporous MOFs in biomedicine are of high interest for patenting. Antimicrobial MOFs have been patented by researchers from the United Kingdom.
