(619d) A Technical Overview about the Use of Ultra-Microporous Fluorinated MOF for Separations and Sensing Applications

Youssef Belmabkhout, Mohamed Rachid Tchalala, Amandine Cadiau, Karim Adil, Aleksander Shkurenko, Prashant M. Bhatt, and Mohamed Eddaoudi

Functional Materials Design, Discovery & Development (FMD3), Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center, Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

In the last few years, the adsorption community witnessed an increasing interest in unveiling ultra-microporous fluorinated MOFs for gas/vapor separation applications. This sub-class of materials mainly limited to structures with pcu topology showed a plethora of interesting properties that thousands of discovered MOFs, with a wide variety of topological structures, could not reveal. Further, the structural-adsorptive properties relationships of this unique platform were exploited to uncover their corresponding unique sensing properties. In this paper, an overview about the use of ultra-microporous fluorinated MOFs will be proposed. The authors will describe critically this growing area of research and present their perspectives of the future use of this platform for real applications.

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