TY - JOUR
T1 - A route to high surface area, porosity and inclusion of large molecules in crystals
AU - Chae, Hee K.
AU - Siberio-Pérez, Diana Y.
AU - Kim, Jaheon
AU - Go, Yong Bok
AU - Eddaoudi, Mohamed
AU - Matzger, Adam J.
AU - O'Keeffe, Michael
AU - Yaghi, Omar M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements Initial phases of this work were carried out by H. Li and scale-up was performed by A. Benin. We are grateful to the NSF and the DOE for support of various aspects of this programme.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgements We thank L. Bocquet, R.F. Bruinsma, P.G. de Gennes, J. B. Freund, D. Levine, and M. A. Rutgers for suggestions. This work was supported by the NSF through grants to D.J.D. and A.J.L.
PY - 2004/2/5
Y1 - 2004/2/5
N2 - One of the outstanding challenges in the field of porous materials is the design and synthesis of chemical structures with exceptionally high surface areas. Such materials are of critical importance to many applications involving catalysis, separation and gas storage. The claim for the highest surface area of a disordered structure is for carbon, at 2,030 m2 g-1 (ref. 2). Until recently, the largest surface area of an ordered structure was that of zeolite Y, recorded at 904 m2g-1 (ref. 3). But with the introduction of metal-organic framework materials, this has been exceeded, with values up to 3,000 m2 g-1 (refs 4-7). Despite this, no method of determining the upper limit in surface area for a material has yet been found. Here we present a general strategy that has allowed us to realize a structure having by far the highest surface area reported to date. We report the design, synthesis and properties of crystalline Zn4O(1,3,5-benzenetribenzoate)2, a new metal-organic framework with a surface area estimated at 4,500 m2 g-1. This framework, which we name MOF-177, combines this exceptional level of surface area with an ordered structure that has extra-large pores capable of binding polycyclic organic guest molecules - attributes not previously combined in one material.
AB - One of the outstanding challenges in the field of porous materials is the design and synthesis of chemical structures with exceptionally high surface areas. Such materials are of critical importance to many applications involving catalysis, separation and gas storage. The claim for the highest surface area of a disordered structure is for carbon, at 2,030 m2 g-1 (ref. 2). Until recently, the largest surface area of an ordered structure was that of zeolite Y, recorded at 904 m2g-1 (ref. 3). But with the introduction of metal-organic framework materials, this has been exceeded, with values up to 3,000 m2 g-1 (refs 4-7). Despite this, no method of determining the upper limit in surface area for a material has yet been found. Here we present a general strategy that has allowed us to realize a structure having by far the highest surface area reported to date. We report the design, synthesis and properties of crystalline Zn4O(1,3,5-benzenetribenzoate)2, a new metal-organic framework with a surface area estimated at 4,500 m2 g-1. This framework, which we name MOF-177, combines this exceptional level of surface area with an ordered structure that has extra-large pores capable of binding polycyclic organic guest molecules - attributes not previously combined in one material.
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U2 - 10.1038/nature02311
DO - 10.1038/nature02311
M3 - Article
C2 - 14765190
AN - SCOPUS:1142298818
SN - 0028-0836
VL - 427
SP - 523
EP - 527
JO - NATURE
JF - NATURE
IS - 6974
ER -