Shaping of Metal–Organic Frameworks: From Fluid to Shaped Bodies and Robust Foams

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• 作者：Yifa Chen ; Xianqiang Huang ; Shenghan Zhang ; Siqing Li ; Sijia Cao ; Xiaokun Pei ; Junwen Zhou ; Xiao Feng ; Bo Wang
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 31, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：138
• 期：34
• 页码：10810-10813
• 全文大小：337K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5126

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The applications of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) toward industrial separation, catalysis, sensing, and some sophisticated devices are drastically affected by their intrinsic fragility and poor processability. Unlike organic polymers, MOF crystals are insoluble in any solvents and are usually not thermoplastic, which means traditional solvent- or melting-based processing techniques are not applicable for MOFs. Herein, a continuous phase transformation processing strategy is proposed for fabricating and shaping MOFs into processable fluids, shaped bodies, and even MOF foams that are capable of reversible transformation among these states. Based on this strategy, a cup-shaped Cu-MOF composite and hierarchically porous MOF foam were developed for highly efficient catalytic C–H oxidation (conv. 76% and sele. 93% for cup-shaped Cu-MOF composite and conv. 92% and sele. 97% for porous foam) with ease of recycling and dramatically improved kinetics. Furthermore, various MOF-based foams with low densities (<0.1 g cm^–3) and high MOF loadings (up to 80 wt %) were obtained via this protocol. Imparted with hierarchically porous structures and fully accessible MOFs uniformly distributed, these foams presented low energy penalty (pressure drop <20 Pa, at 500 mL min^–1) and showed potential applications as efficient membrane reactors.