Linking disorder and application in porous hybrid frameworks

这个项目的目的是证明MOF领域是完全错误的，并鼓励人们对无定形和无序材料产生新的兴趣。金属-有机骨架(MOF)是一种多孔杂化材料，它不仅能够基于尺寸区分分子，还能够基于化学区分分子。在所报道的60,000个结构中，超过99.9%是结晶固体。密集的研究努力和产业融资被投入到高度结晶的“无缺陷结构”中。然而，这种结晶度和功能性质之间的假设关系从根本上与聚合物和玻璃相关领域所采用的逻辑相反，聚合物和玻璃在催化和分离等材料光谱中被广泛使用。该项目将重点研究低结晶度的工业相关材料的结构特征和特性。

The aim of this project is to prove the MOF field completely wrong and encourage a new interest in amorphous and disordered materials. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous hybrid materials, which are able to differentiate molecules based not only on size, but also on chemistry. Over 99.9% of the 60,000 structures reported are crystalline solids. Intensive research efforts and industrial finance are invested into highly crystalline 'defect-free structures'. This assumed relationship between crystallinity and functional properties is however fundamentally opposed to the logic employed in related fields of polymers and glasses, which are used widely across the materials spectrum in e.g. catalysis and separations. The project will focus on the structural characterisation and properties of industrially relevant materials of low crystallinity.