

P., A New Zirconium Inorganic Building Brick Forming Metal Organic Frameworks with Exceptional Stability. M., Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks. D., A Chemically Functionalizable Nanoporous Material N. published in the Journal of American Chemistry in 2008. The structure comes from a paper of Cavka et al. Now, the question is “how long will it remain the big boss?”, the challenge being that you cannot just kill it, you need to find a material that is better! The ‘Mofia’ war is opened!!! Indeed, it has been shown that, in general, by increasing the valence of the metal, the chemical and thermal stabilities of MOF increases. much more stable than most of known MOFs. This MOF was basically the first built up from a tetravalent metal, the zirconium Zr 4+ and thus an novel inorganic cluster (see below), which has given rise to a robust solid, i.e. There is probably UiO-66 in each lab around the world working on MOFs. in 2008 3 and has generated quite a lot of enthusiasm from the ‘Mofia’. This solid has been reported by Cavka et al. The boss of the crown family, namely the UiO-66, is “probably” the most famous MOF of these past 6 years, now taking care of the family over the HKUST-1 1 and MOF-5 2. It is just a nickname for the scientific community working on Metal Organic Frameworks, acronymed MOFs, thus the community is the MOFIA. This picture was drawn using Diamond structure visualisation software and ‘extra’ images from.
