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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 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 January 8, 2016 Tom Wilson	Disciplines unite to strengthen MOFs Chemists can repurpose concepts from mechanical engineering when trying to develop metal -- organic frameworks, according to researchers in the UK.
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 November 13, 2015 Kira Welter	First permanently porous liquid created Liquids with permanent porosity were created by combining a functionalized organic cage molecule and a bulky solvent
Chemistry World June 9, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Super sponges soak up gas Researchers in the US have shown that a recently discovered class of compound based on light elements can store gas at least as efficiently as the most promising metal organic framework candidates.
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 April 28, 2011 Elinor Richards	Hardy MOFs endure extreme conditions The most chemically and thermally stable metal-organic frameworks yet have been made by a team in the US.
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 November 6, 2011 Laura Howes	Predicting the Perfect MOF A collaboration between theoreticians and synthetic chemists in the US has led to a new understanding of metal-organic frameworks and some promising new compounds for methane storage.
Chemistry World February 23, 2010 Simon Hadlington	MOFs make light work of it UK researchers have discovered a new use for metal-organic frameworks -- as potential lighting devices.
Chemistry World April 28, 2015 Jennifer Newton	Defective by design Researchers in the UK and France have tuned the properties of a metal -- organic framework by deliberately engineering defects into its structure.
Chemistry World August 13, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Picky MOF crystals show promise For the first time, researchers have modified metal-organic frameworks to selectively capture large organic molecules.
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 March 13, 2013 Jennifer Newton	Removing toxic chemicals with POPs In a search for alternatives to the filters used in gas masks, researchers at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, have joined forces with scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Maryland, to investigate a series of porous organic polymers bearing metal-catecholate groups.
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 5, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Keeping MOF pores open wide Chemists have developed a way of preventing metal-organic frameworks - hugely porous materials with enormous potential for storing a range of molecules and other structures - from 'clogging up' during synthesis.
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 December 1, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Magnesium Cage Shows Promise for Carbon Capture US chemists have shown that a hugely porous chemical cage containing large numbers of exposed magnesium centers can efficiently and selectively capture carbon dioxide from a mixture of gases and subsequently release it using little energy.
Chemistry World December 2, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Chemical barcodes made from MOFs By varying the amount of luminescent lanthanides, the novel metal-organic frameworks are coded to emit a unique spectrum of light that can be read like a fingerprint.
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 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 August 2, 2013 Jennifer Newton	If everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry Cafer Yavuz is a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon. His groups design and make new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to offer sustainable solutions for energy and environmental issues.
Technology Research News August 25, 2004	Method Makes Stronger Steel Researchers have found a way to cast relatively large structures from a type of steel whose atomic structure is amorphous, like glass, rather than the usual orderly crystalline structure of metal.
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 February 12, 2015 James Urquhart	MOF sensor sniffs out ammonia An electronic device that exploits the semiconducting properties of a two dimensional metal-organic framework, a material analagous to graphene, has been made for the first time.
Chemistry World August 11, 2014 Emma Stoye	Swellable polymer sponges up CO 2 A porous polymer 'sponge' that absorbs carbon dioxide by swelling up has been developed by scientists in the UK.
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 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 October 18, 2009 Hayley Birch	Conducting MOFs make membranes for fuel cells New crystalline compounds could yield better materials for fuel cell applications, according to Canadian scientists.
Chemistry World May 26, 2015 Victoria Richards	Crystalline sponge method strikes again Scientists from Japan report that their revolutionary crystallographic technique has determined the stereochemistries of molecules with axial and planar chiralities, where classical methods had failed.
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 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 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 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 June 28, 2011 Simon Hadlington	A Cool Way to Store Hydrogen? Theoretical chemists in the US have suggested a rather more commonplace solution to store hydrogen: ice.
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 February 18, 2015 Emma Stephen	Nanoporous methane storage -- an impossible target? Methane could reduce global dependence on oil so the search is on for nanoporous materials to act as fuel tanks for this tricky-to-store gas, but things are not looking promising.
Chemistry World August 6, 2014 Simon Hadlington	3D printed reactionware hots up UK researchers have shown that it is possible to carry out a range of hydrothermal chemical syntheses in sealed reactors made from 3D printed polypropylene.