Metal-Organic Frameworks: Current Status and Future Applications
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 407
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic and inorganic chemistry with emphasis in the preparation of functional metal-organic frameworks; MOF design and modification for their application as optical sensors and environmental remediation; metal organic frameworks; supramolecular chemistry; sensors; biosensors; optically-active MOFs
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Interests: chemistry and preparation of metal-organic frameworks and coordination polymers in general; design of functional materials, which include photoluminescence, proton conductivity and catalysis; chemical crystallography
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Interests: (photo)active (hybrid)materials; porphyrins; phthalocyanines; photomedicine; photoinduced energy; electron-transfer materials; optical (chemo)sensors; (photo)catalysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal–Organic Frameworks are well-established porous crystalline molecular materials with tremendous structural diversity and tunability, and a high surface area. Thus, MOFs could be suitable materials for a variety of applications, particularly in recognition and sensing, and can act as receptors for target components such as ionic species, small molecules, solvents, explosives, and environmental contaminants.
Ligand design and post-synthetic modifications are key strategies in MOFs for the selective recognition of target compounds. The development of MOF recognition motifs is intrinsically connected with the construction of sensor devices/systems capable of converting a recognition event into another form of quantifiable signal, such as optical, electrical, or spectral.
In recent decades, various MOFs have been incorporated into sensors as recognition motifs with excellent features, such as high sensitivity, selectivity, stability, and cost effectiveness. For this Special Issue, we invite researchers to contribute papers on the preparation and development of MOFs as recognition elements for target molecules, ranging from biomolecules to environmental contaminants or gases, with a special emphasis on recognition mechanisms that manage the entire sensing process.
Dr. Flávio Figueira
Dr. Filipe Alexandre Almeida Paz
Dr. João P.C. Tomé
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal-organic frameworks
- recognition motifs
- optical sensors
- electrochemical sensors
- sensing devices
- environmental contaminant recognition
- biomolecule recognition
- gas recognition
- supramolecular chemistry
