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Chemistry World
September 2, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
New ceramic can handle the heat Researchers in the UK have created a new ceramic oxide with tunable thermal expansion: it can expand, contract or remain unchanged in response to heat depending upon the proportion of key components used to make it.   |
Chemistry World
August 31, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
MOFs with a heart of glass Metal -- organic frameworks have long been the preserve of the solid state domain, but a group of scientists have now produced a molten MOF and cooled it to form a unique glass. |
Chemistry World
February 4, 2011 |
MOF magnets deliver drugs German scientists have encapsulated nanomagnets inside metal organic frameworks. The MOF magnets can be filled with a drug, which is released when a magnetic field is applied. |
Chemistry World
February 7, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Crystal Shows Colossal Expansion A super-stretchy crystal could help to develop improved coatings for satellites facing the extreme temperature variations of space, according to UK scientists. |
Chemistry World
April 30, 2015
Simon Hadlington |
Floppy polymer defies convention to form rigid framework Chemists in the US have turned received wisdom on its head by using floppy, linear polymers to construct a rigid, crystalline, three-dimensional metal -- organic framework. |
Chemistry World
March 8, 2013
Yuandi Li |
High-capacity MOF shows clean fuel promise Scientists in Evanston, Illinois, and in Gaithersburg, Maryland have synthesized a metal organic framework in gram-scale quantities that has 67% of the deliverable storage density of gas cylinders, but at only a quarter of the pressure. |
Chemistry World
July 19, 2012
Helen Gray |
MOF gate opens selective CO2 gas storage door UK researchers have designed a metal -- organic framework that, unusually, selectively adsorbs CO 2 over ethyne by a dynamic gate-opening mechanism and has potential applications in fuel gas separation. |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2015
Victoria Richards |
Spicing up MOFs Curcumin is top of the ingredients list for a highly porous metal -- organic framework being developed by scientists in China that demonstrates a unique co-release drug delivery system. |
Chemistry World
May 4, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Molecular shuttle slides into the solid state Scientists in Canada have for the first time incorporated a 'molecular shuttle' into a metal -- organic framework, raising the possibility of future solid-state nanotechnologies based on interlocking molecules. |
Chemistry World
August 17, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
A MOF you can scoff Chemists have accidentally discovered a new type of metal organic framework, or MOF, which is made from edible components. |
Chemistry World
July 8, 2015
Polly Wilson |
MOF blends oxidizer with fuel for a precise bang Scientists in the UK and Turkey have devised a new way to make explosive materials in a safer, simpler and more consistent manner. |
Chemistry World
November 21, 2013
Emily James |
Bucky-built MOFs Buckyballs can be used to build up a novel two-dimensional metal -- organic framework. |
Chemistry World
November 8, 2007
Lewis Brindley |
Radiation Damage Puzzle Cracked Two studies have provided new insight into how radiation causes nano-scale defects in materials, changing their properties dramatically or leading to dangerous cracks that weaken them. |
Chemistry World
September 7, 2009 |
Bolt-on MOF catalysts Chemists in the US have shown that a class of hugely porous materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can have catalytic functions bolted onto the structure after it has been constructed to produce efficient catalysts that can be easily recovered and cycled many times. |
Chemistry World
March 19, 2014
Jon Cartwright |
Computer memory made from sugar cube The sugar-based metal -- organic framework infused with rubidium hydroxide can be switched between high and low resistance states, in a similar way to resistive random-access memory. |
Chemistry World
June 25, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Porous materials break out of covalent cage Porous materials made from small molecular cages, rather than rigidly bonded frameworks, could be easier to process and have more tunable performance, say UK researchers. |
Chemistry World
November 14, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
A MOF that goes off with a bang The versatility of metal -- organic frameworks has been explosively demonstrated by chemists in China who have synthesized highly energetic three-dimensional MOFs. |
Chemistry World
April 7, 2015
Hugh Cowley |
The Goldilocks of heterogeneous catalysis An international team of scientists has tethered palladium to a metal -- organic framework support using thiol groups normally associated with catalyst poisoning |
Chemistry World
September 20, 2012
Christopher Castleton |
Semiconductor doping Until now there has been a rather thin selection of graduate level primers focused on properties and characterization methods for semiconductor point defects. Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors by McCluskey and Haller fills it nicely. |
Chemistry World
November 4, 2010
Mike Brown |
World's smallest chromatography column Single metal-organic framework crystals can be used to separate mixtures of dyes just like a miniature chromatography column, say scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World
May 27, 2015
Emma Stephen |
ZIF-8 disrupts ionic liquid deep freeze Researchers from Japan have combined an ionic liquid with a metal -- organic framework to produce an unusual material that retains its conductivity below -- 20 C. |
Chemistry World
September 20, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Catalytic Polyoxometalate Plays Hide and Seek in MOF Chemists in the US have managed to enhance a catalyst that can be used to destroy toxic or smelly chemicals in the air. |
Chemistry World
August 28, 2012
James Mitchell Crow |
MOF smashes gas storage ceiling Highly porous materials being developed as future fuel tanks for hydrogen- or methane-powered vehicles could hold much more gas than previously thought. |
Chemistry World
May 26, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
MOF catalyst capable of disabling chemical weapons Metal -- organic frameworks may become an essential tool to destroy chemical weapons as researchers in the US have found one that has the potential to rapidly break down nerve agents. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Crack-proofing MOF membranes Chinese chemists have developed a way to reinforce metal-organic framework-based membranes to toughen them against cracking. |
Chemistry World
August 21, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Coating can drive down white LED light prices The cost of white LED lighting may be set to fall as scientists in the US have created an LED coating made from a relatively cheap luminescent metal -- organic framework. |
Chemistry World
March 30, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Nanotubes spot damage Researchers in the US have created a new system for monitoring structural damage in real time. Based on a carbon nanotube composite, the system uses thermal imaging to reveal areas of unsafe cracks and stresses. |
