SPP 1362:  Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks

• Subject Area: Chemistry
• Term: from 2008 to 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 43332165

The Priority Programme concentrates on the synthesis, the physical properties and the specific integration of functionality into Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), a new class of porous materials surpassing significantly the adsorption capacity of established materials such as activated carbons and zeolites. They are characterised by a modular construction principle allowing for a rational design of custom made pore systems. Using suitable building blocks, the integration of specific interactions for molecules inside the framework shall be realised for the storage, sensing, transformation or separation of molecular species inside MOFs.
In this way, new materials for energy storage (for example hydrogen or methane) will be constructed. For sensor materials, a change of physical properties should be used for the detection of molecules. For the chemical transformation, materials are important, having specific active catalytic sites in the framework or the pores. In all cases, the focus is to achieve a basic understanding of the interactions of the framework and the adsorbed or reacting molecules. In this context, the experimental determination of the preferred adsorption sites and the dynamics of molecules inside the pore system are crucial. For this purpose, also modelling using modern theoretic methods is needed.
In order to enhance the interdisciplinary exchange between chemists, materials scientists, physicists and engineers, generally only such projects will be funded, providing a synergistic cooperation of two or three Principal Investigators with different expertise in the following areas of competence:
(1) synthesis, structure and reactivity of MOFs,
(2) physical characterisation of molecular interactions and dynamics,
(3) theoretic description, simulation and modelling, and
(4) systems and functions. By testing the functionality of MOFs, the Priority Programme will evaluate the potential of porous MOFs in the areas of storage, recognition, separation or catalytic transformation of molecules.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• International Connection: Thailand, United Kingdom

Projects

• Adsorption of harmful gases in MOFs and their spectroscopic properties (Applicant Mavrantonakis, Andreas )
• Coordination in the DFG Priority Program 1362 (MOFs) (Applicant Kaskel, Stefan )
• Development and characterization of MOF based chromatographic materials combining size exclusion, intrinsic chirality and specific interactions (Applicants Mertens, Florian ;  Weber, Edwin )
• Fundamental host-guest interactions in porous metal organic frameworks. A combined experimental and theoretical approach (Applicants Schmid, Rochus ;  Stallmach, Frank )
• Heteronuclear MOFs for applications in adsorption and redox catalysis (Applicants Gläser, Roger ;  Krautscheid, Harald ;  Staudt, Reiner )
• Knowledge-based development of supported ZIF membranes for liquid mixture separation by pervaporation (Applicants Caro, Jürgen ;  Chmelik, Christian ;  Janke, Wolfhard ;  Wiebcke, Michael )
• Liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) of functionalized SURMOFs for application in Gas Chromatography (Applicants Fischer, Roland A. ;  Mertens, Florian ;  Wöll, Christof )
• MOF Based Sorption Sensors by Rare Earth Luminescence (Applicants Beuerle, Florian ;  Feldmann, Claus ;  Müller-Buschbaum, Klaus )
• MOFs as carrier for nitric oxide delivery in biological systems - microscopic fundamentals of adsorption and controlled release studied by infrared and electron and nuclear spin resonance spectroscopy (Applicants Bertmer, Marko ;  Fröba, Michael ;  Hartmann, Martin ;  Pöppl, Andreas )
• Nano-MOFs: In situ monitoring and control of the crystallite growth of MOFs in colloidal solution and at surfaces modified with SAMs employing step-by-step dosing of reactants (Applicants Fischer, Roland A. ;  Huber, Klaus ;  Wöll, Christof )
• New Functional Metal-Organic Frameworks for (Enantio)selective Catalysis and Separation (Applicants Brunner, Eike ;  Glorius, Frank ;  Kaskel, Stefan ;  Klemm, Elias )
• Prediction, synthesis and characterization of novel Imidazolate based metal organic frameworks (Applicants Holdt, Hans-Jürgen ;  Leoni, Stefano ;  Seifert, Gotthard ;  Thomas, Arne )
• Redox-Active Metal-Organic Frameworks: Novel Entatic State Catalysts? (Applicants Reuter, Karsten ;  Volkmer, Dirk )
• Redox-Active MOF-5 Isotypes: Novel Entatic State Catalysts? (Applicants Sauer, Joachim ;  Volkmer, Dirk )
• Systematic Study of hydrogen adsorption in metal organic frameworks (Applicants Heine, Thomas ;  Hirscher, Michael ;  Seifert, Gotthard )
• Targeting selective host-guest interactions in functionalized MOFs - synthesis, NMR-studies and sensor design (Applicants Bein, Thomas ;  Lotsch, Bettina Valeska ;  Lüning, Ulrich ;  Senker, Jürgen ;  Stock, Norbert )
• Zr-based metal-organic frameworks with tailored linkers: Immobilized liquids for sorption, extraction and ionic conduction (Applicants Behrens, Peter ;  Godt, Adelheid ;  Wark, Michael )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Stefan Kaskel