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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer tunable porosity and functionality.
  • Achieving complex, ordered MOF structures with predictable properties remains a challenge.
  • Current MOF synthesis often results in disorder, limiting precise functionalization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a modular strategy for constructing highly porous, well-ordered quaternary MOFs.
  • To demonstrate the systematic variation of MOF structure while maintaining topology through ligand substitution.
  • To create MOFs with "programmed pores" for complex functional behaviors.

Main Methods:

  • Employing a family of three topologically distinct linkers for MOF assembly.
  • Introducing substituted analogues of ligands to generate a series of isoreticular frameworks.
  • Designing substitution patterns compatible with crystallographic site symmetries to ensure order.

Main Results:

  • Successfully synthesized a highly porous quaternary MOF with a maintained topology.
  • Generated eight isoreticular frameworks with systematically varied structures.
  • Observed "programmed pores" with compartmentalized functional groups in a periodic lattice.
  • Demonstrated unconventional CO2 sorption trends with up to 100% capacity enhancement due to synergistic effects.

Conclusions:

  • The presented strategy enables the generation of complex, modular, and well-ordered MOFs.
  • Programmed pores within these MOFs facilitate complex functional behavior.
  • These MOFs show potential for advanced applications like enzyme-like heterogeneous catalysis and ultraselective adsorption.