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Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are novel organic-inorganic crystalline materials, which promise to become a powerful and flexible family for different industrial uses within catalysis, adsorption and sensor technology, overcoming many of the limitations of Zeolites: MOFs may display very high porosity and surface areas, and their functionalities can be tailored. The present book describes the characterization results obtained for this class of materials. The aim of the work was to understand at the molecular level the interaction governing the stability and adsorption properties of the frameworks by combined use of experimental and theoretical modeling efforts. The value of the work goes further to the fact that nice set of data have been collected describing in detail the properties of the materials and their interaction with some relevant gases. The book is divided in to six chapters and mainly discusses the vibrational and Uv-Visible spectroscopy results.
About the author
Silvia Bordiga is Professor in Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Turin. Her research is mainly devoted to the characterization of the physical-chemical properties of oxides, zeolites and MOFs with attention to their surface properties. She has co-authored more than 200 research and review papers in the fields of Chemistry and Material Science appeared in international journals which have received more than 5000 citations.
