Metal-organic frameworks as energy materials
Metal-organic frameworks (MOF) have the potential to combine a vast听multitude of inorganic and organic building units, thus leading to new synergistically derived properties. Meet Professor Pascal D.C. Dietzel in Bergen Energy Lab麓s lunch meeting.
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOF) have the potential to combine a vast听multitude of inorganic and organic building units, thus leading to new synergistically derived properties. As a consequence of their precisely听defined pores in the 0.4-2 nm range and large pore volumes, they are听heavily investigated materials in adsorption of gases, like hydrogen,听methane, carbon dioxide, and separation processes, e.g. hydrogen听purification, CO2 capture.
In addition to these properties, the research听group is interested in the use of MOFs as energy materials in other听application areas, such as catalytic properties (e.g. hydrogen production by photocatalytic water splitting, photocatalytic reduction听of CO2), and the investigation of MOFs as materials for photovoltaic听devices and as materials in fuel cells, batteries, and supercapacitators.
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