MOFs: New Useful Materials – A Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Susumu Kitagawa
MOFs: New Useful Materials – A Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Susumu Kitagawa
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MOFs:新的有用材料-荣誉北川进教授的特刊
DOI:
10.1002/adma.201803613
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发表时间:
2018-09
影响因子:
29.4
通讯作者:
Qiang Xu;H. Kitagawa
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作者:
Qiang Xu;H. Kitagawa
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201803613 safe storage system involving the use of MOFs is a significant achievement for technologies for the storage and transport of C2H2 and other explosive gas. These two studies demonstrated early on the usefulness and versatility of MOFs. Beyond these robust porous frameworks, Kitagawa also developed the concept of the framework, possessing both porosity and structural flexibility. He predicted the existence and importance of this class of materials, and gave it the generic name of soft porous crystals. An important class of soft porous crystals is the flexible MOFs, which are regarded as cooperatively integrating “softness” and “crystallinity”. The precise combination of metal ions and organic ligands created a variety of flexible MOFs, and he demonstrated the supercritical gas recognition for separation (2003). A flexible framework can adsorb the target gas at a certain pressure via structural changes, and then release the adsorbed gas by the pressure-swing method. He optimized the flexibility in the structures, and achieved high CO2-separation ability over CH4 in low-regeneration-energy materials (2012). It has been shown that some of his flexible MOFs offer lowenergy CO2 separation from biogas. He created MOF materials whose gas-adsorption properties are controllable by applying external stimuli such as light or electric fields. Switchable pore surfaces were synthesized that can be activated by the photoirradiation procedure (2010). On-demand trapping of a molecular decoding system used a structural entanglement to detect a single target molecule of benzene derivatives in a vapor form with a corresponding luminescent readout (2011). By the use of a redox-active MOF, the high selectivity for O2 and NO over various gases was demonstrated. MOFs contain an electrondonating organic linker and oxidation of the ligand occurs as specific gases are adsorbed (2010). Beyond this functionalization of the host framework, he also made a responsive MOF by using guest accommodation. He incorporated fluorescence signaling molecules in the porous structure, with the fluorescence of the hybrid material being switched ON/OFF via adsorption of CO2 gas (2011), allowing low-concentration gas sensing. He demonstrated reversible switching of magnetic states in MOFs by guest adsorption (2009). An Fe2+-based MOF with cyano-ligand bridging exhibits bistability between the high spin (HS) state and the low spin (LS) state at room temperature. The MOF can adopt both the HS and LS states depending on the adsorbed gases. These magnetic states are switched by gas adsorption/desorption at room temperature. The incorporation of such responsive groups in MOFs demonstrates their large potential to create advanced porous materials. Kitagawa noticed that the thermal transitions of confined organic polymers, important in molecule-/ion-transport technology, can be controlled within nanospaces. He showed that the pore size and surface functionality of MOFs can be tailored to study the transition behavior of confined polymers, providing Metal–organic framewrks (MOFs), also known as porous coordination polymers (PCPs), are an emerging class of porous materials. Due to their structural and functional tunability, the field of MOFs has become one of the fastest growing fields in not only chemistry but also material science. With the maturation of the synthesis methodology, structure characterization, and functionality modification, a new era of MOFs as a useful material has begun, with a huge number publications appearing in the last few years, dealing with their applications in a variety of directions, even devices. Here, we are greatly honored to assemble a compendium of the latest work on MOFs toward their applications from the materials angle, in this special issue in honor of Professor Susumu Kitagawa at Kyoto University, one of the pioneers of the MOF field. As early as in 1997, Kitagawa successfully demonstrated porosity in solid coordination networks with gas-sorption experiments. He synthesized a wide variety of MOFs and developed a comprehensive structural chemistry. In the early stage of MOF chemistry, he focused on sufficiently small and uniform pores, which possess comparable size to the oxygen molecule, and realized that gaseous oxygen can be made to form regular one-dimensional chains. This gave unprecedented insight into the properties of confined gases, with the resulting highly compressed packing of O2 comparable to that in solid oxygen at 2 GPa (2002). Acetylene is a gas with many industrial applications; however, it is hard to handle because of its explosive nature. A highly efficient method to separate it from its close relation, carbon dioxide (CO2), is a promising route for purifying and storing “strategic” gases in general. He succeeded in the highly selective capture and storage of acetylene (C2H2) gas against CO2 under ambient conditions (2005). The