“Heterogeneity within Order” in Metal–Organic Frameworks

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed.) Vol. 54; no. 11; pp. 3417 - 3430
• Main Authors: Furukawa, Hiroyasu, Müller, Ulrich, Yaghi, Omar M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY‐VCH Verlag 09.03.2015; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; Wiley
• Edition: International ed. in English
• Subjects: Anniversaries; Backbone; Buildings; Construction; Crystallinity; defects; Heterogeneity; industrial chemistry; membrane, carbon capture, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly), synthesis (scalable processing); Metal-organic frameworks; Porosity; secondary building units; Strategy; secondary building units; industrial chemistry; heterogeneity; defects; metal-organic frameworks

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are constructed by linking inorganic units with organic linkers to make extended networks. Though more than 20 000 MOF structures have been reported most of these are ordered and largely composed of a limited number of different kinds building units, and very few have...