I-Corps: MOFTech: Commercialization of Metal-Organic Frameworks

I-Corps：MOFTech：金属有机框架的商业化

• 批准号: 1313537
• 负责人: Krista Walton
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-15 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1313537&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; MOFTech; Commercialization; Metal; Organic

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have gained growing popularity in nanomaterials science due to their enormous potential applications in gas treatment, gas storage, catalysis, drug delivery and host-guest chemistry. With a market for porous materials valued at $3 billion annually, a wide range of industries and government agencies have need of new materials that will provide radical advancements for applications ranging from air purification to greenhouse gas capture. However, private or government sectors have minimal access to these new materials. The project team seeks to provide customized MOF materials with our novel scale-up process to fill this serious market gap. Based on the results of prior research, the team has developed technologies to produce MOF materials in kilogram quantities. Currently, MOFs exist largely at the academic lab scale, where the typical MOF synthesis results in yields on the order of 10-100 mg of material. Radical advances in porous materials capabilities are required to solve critical problems in air purification, carbon dioxide capture, natural gas upgrading, etc. MOFs have been shown to provide broad spectrum success in these sectors at the lab scale. 100 grams of one the particular materials developed by the project team possess a surface area that is roughly equivalent to the area of 26 American football fields. For true larger-scale applicability, easy access to quantities of at least two orders of magnitude greater, i.e., 10-100 kg, is required. Due to the broad applicability of these materials, there is a realized need for the development of our technology. This proposed project has the potential to fill critical gaps that currently prevent real-world application of MOFs, including customization of materials for the customer's applications and availability of a portfolio of MOFs for customer testing at scale.

金属有机骨架材料在气体处理、气体储存、催化、药物输送和主客体化学等领域具有巨大的应用潜力，在纳米材料科学中得到了越来越多的关注。随着多孔材料市场每年价值30亿美元，各种行业和政府机构都需要新材料，这些材料将为从空气净化到温室气体捕获的应用提供根本性的进步。然而，私营部门或政府部门很少有机会获得这些新材料。该项目团队寻求提供定制的MOF材料与我们的新的放大工艺，以填补这一严重的市场空白。基于先前的研究结果，该团队开发了以千克为单位生产MOF材料的技术。目前，M0 F主要以学术实验室规模存在，其中典型的M0 F合成产生约10-100 mg材料的产量。需要多孔材料能力的根本性进步来解决空气净化、二氧化碳捕获、天然气升级等方面的关键问题。MOFs已被证明在实验室规模上在这些领域取得了广泛的成功。100克的一种由项目团队开发的特殊材料的表面积大致相当于26个美式足球场的面积。对于真正的更大规模的适用性，容易获得至少两个数量级以上的数量，即，需要10-100公斤。由于这些材料的广泛适用性，我们的技术发展的需求已经实现。该拟议项目有可能填补目前阻碍MOFs实际应用的关键空白，包括为客户应用定制材料，以及提供MOFs组合供客户大规模测试。