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Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Metal-organic Frameworks
Published on: September 5, 2014
A highly porous NbO type metal-organic framework constructed from an expanded tetracarboxylate
Jianfeng Cai1, Xingtang Rao, Yabing He
1State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. gdqian@zju.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A novel NbO type microporous metal–organic framework Cu2L (ZJU-32; H4L = 5'-((3,5-dicarboxyphenyl)ethynyl)-[1,1':3',1"-terphenyl]-4,4"-dicarboxylic acid) constructed from an elaborately designed tetratopic ligand was solvothermally synthesized and structurally characterized. The activated ZJU-32a exhibits high permanent porosity with the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area of 3831 m(2) g(-1) and the pore volume of 1.482 cm(3) g(-1), enabling it to be a promising material for both methane storage and carbon dioxide capture at room temperature.
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