ABSTRACT
Nanoporous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), also known as porous coordination polymers/networks, are regarded to be rst developed around 20 years ago and are undergoing accelerated and sustained growth during the past decade.1 The term MOF was popularized by Yaghi et al. around 1995.2 Some MOFs have already been industrially prepared, for example, by BASF (marketed under the trademark BASOLITE™) and commercially available through Aldrich.3 Taking advantage of the properties of traditional inorganic and organic porous materials, MOFs are a new class of hybrid porous materials and have innite crystalline lattices that involve two main components of inorganic vertices (metal ions or clusters) and organic linkers. These two components are interconnected by coordination bonds of moderate
3.1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 71 3.2 Synthetic Methods .......................................................................................... 73
3.2.1 Hydrothermal and Solvothermal Methods ......................................... 73 3.2.2 Solvent Evaporation Method ............................................................... 73 3.2.3 Diffusion Method ............................................................................... 74 3.2.4 Microwave Reaction and Ultrasonic Methods.................................... 74 3.2.5 Solvent-Free Mechanochemical Conditions ....................................... 74
3.3 Structures ........................................................................................................ 74 3.4 Potential Applications .....................................................................................80
