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Author Spotlight: Characterizing Porous Materials for Aiding the Development of Robust Metal-Organic Frameworks with Adsorption Behavior
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Rapidly assessing the activation conditions and porosity of metal-organic frameworks using thermogravimetric analysis
Thomas M McDonald1, Eric D Bloch, Jeffrey R Long
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. jrlong@berkeley.edu.
Abstract:
A methodology utilizing a thermogravimetric analyzer to monitor propane uptake following incremental increases of the temperature is demonstrated as a means of rapidly identifying porous materials and determining the optimum activation conditions of metal-organic frameworks.

