Saha et al. (from Rahul Banerjee group at Indian National Chemical Laboratory) reported a rapid way of making copper xerogels (with a max surface area of 67 m2/g) starting from oxalic acid and copper perchlorate. I always taught oxalic acid would make good MOFs (hence my interest in this work) but I guess xerogels would be the best you can get. I'm sure the authors tried to get ordered structures first. Great work, nonetheless. 
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Proton conductive copper oxalate xerogels
Saha et al. (from Rahul Banerjee group at Indian National Chemical Laboratory) reported a rapid way of making copper xerogels (with a max surface area of 67 m2/g) starting from oxalic acid and copper perchlorate. I always taught oxalic acid would make good MOFs (hence my interest in this work) but I guess xerogels would be the best you can get. I'm sure the authors tried to get ordered structures first. Great work, nonetheless. Wednesday, August 15, 2012
DOE H2 storage target for 2015 is broken!
Theoretically...In an excellent theoretical study, Bill Goddard and his team (Mendoza-Cortes et al.) at Caltech showed that a PdCl2 decorated COF-301 surpasses DOE target of 40 g/L hydrogen storage with a capacity of 60 g/L. And the isotherm reaches DOE target even below 10 bar pressure and all is at 298 K. This is very exciting!
Friday, September 5, 2008
Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Gas Storage
"the very high surface areas, the large pores, the surprising stability, and the ability to tweak the chemistry of the basic building blocks" was what Herman P. C. E. Kuipers, regional manager for innovation and research at Shell Global Solutions told C&EN in August 25th cover story about Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs). These relatively new materials really push it to the edge when we talk about gas storage such as methane, hydrogen, carbondioxide and even toxic ones. Click here to read the story.
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