Overview
Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are highly porous, crystalline materials crafted from metal nodes and organic linkers, offering unparalleled structural tunability. Their immense surface area and designer functionality make them powerful platforms for gas capture, catalysis, and advanced environmental purification. Despite their promise, many MOFs still face challenges in long-term stability, scalability, and cost-effective deployment in real-world technologies. ARCI is developing advanced functionalized MOFs with scalability, low-cost methodology, easily handlable, sustainable, and environmental friendly. Designed and synthesized various functionalized MOFs incorporating a range of metal nodes including Fe, Al, Zn, and Mg, etc, combined with diverse organic ligands include 2-amino Benzene dicarboxylic acid, 1,3,5-Benzene tri carboxylic acid, 1,4-Benzene dicarboxylic acid, methyl diethanol amine, etc. to engineer highly porous and chemically tunable frameworks. These robust materials are being explored for CO2 and VOCs capture with improved affinity, recyclability, and under humid conditions. Also, utilized for fluoride removal applications towards water purification.
Key Features
- Fe, Al, Zn, Mg metal based MOFs are being studied
- Simple, scalable processes
- Surface area: 300-1600 m2/g
- Wide range of porosity (Micro to mesoporous) tuning possible
- Thermal stability: >400 oC
- Stable under humid, basic, and low acidic environments
- Fe based MOF successfully upscaled to 200 g per batch
- Fe based MOF exhibited high CO2 capture ~883 mg/g at room temperature and pressure
- Functionalized Al based MOF material showed quick(~7-9 min) fluoride removal (10 to 1 mg/L)
Potential Applications
- Effective CO2 and VOCs capture from industries flue gases and environmental pollution
- Distinct hazardous elements and metals recovery from water for Water purification
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Basic concepts and understanding of underlying scientific principles
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