The research populace is presently intriguing in copious intention to attain powerful energy planning that is the basic debasement of backup energy as the demand for energy increases, concerns about environmental pollution are becoming serious. To meet the demand for advances in lifestyle, rechargeable batteries, due to their high gravimetric and volumetric potential, high-pressure density, long cycle life, and low self-discharge property, play a major role. So, the high energy density of batteries would be attained by advancing high-capacity electrodes materials. On the other hand, continuous discharge of toxic metals into the aquatic system is harmful to the organism's life and ecosystem, while the discontinuous supply of energy leads to a continuous mismatch between supply and demand. Both these aspects are serious issues in terms of supply and demand, and to meet their effective control and exceeding level is needed.
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) represent emerging hybrid materials consisting of organic ligands and a regular array of positively charged metal ions. MOFs are indeed inspired sacrificial templates owing to their high porosity, regulated and well-defined geometry possessing nanochannels with tunable size, shape, dimensionality, and surface environment. However, MOFs' attractive features are tempered by poor physical strength, low conductivity, low processability, and inferior electrochemical stability. Despite the tailored feature, MOF-based composites consisting of improved overall charge-transport properties without changing the original topology could be prepared. Notably, developing hybrid MOFs-based composites with ordered molecular architecture by controlled polymerization is a highly attractive strategy to prepare the derivative materials with improved properties. The adoption of MOFs with polymers (hybrid composites) having controlled and distributed (cross-linked) structure is becoming an important material because of several properties such as the facile strategy of combining MOFs with polymer in contrast to individual approach of MOFs ad polymers.
The characteristic of this Research Topic is to create a relationship among processing, topological structure, electronic conductivity of MOFs, coordinated MOFs and their related hybrid MOFs/polymer composites as functional materials to give a glimpse into the potential applications, including but not limited to lithium-ion/lithium-air batteries, Zinc-ion/Zinc-air batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, supercapacitors, memory devices, chemical sensing, and removing potentially toxic pollutants from the environment.
High-quality Original Research, Review, Mini Review, and perspective article types are welcome for submission to this Research Topic. Themes of interest include but are not limited to:
• Functionalization/isoreticulation of MOFs using high-yield carbon precursor-materials development to application.
• Rational design of hybrid composite with diverse functions for multiple applications.
• Introduction of single-source carbon precursors.
• Controlling the overall topology and porosity of the hybrid composite material.
• Pyrolysis, structural characteristics, and stability of MOF-based hybrid composites.
• Implications of MOFs-based composite for environmental remediation.
• Developing MOFs-based adsorbents for water and soil decontamination.
• Controlled the polymerization using MOF template.
• 3D printed MOFs-based composites.
The research populace is presently intriguing in copious intention to attain powerful energy planning that is the basic debasement of backup energy as the demand for energy increases, concerns about environmental pollution are becoming serious. To meet the demand for advances in lifestyle, rechargeable batteries, due to their high gravimetric and volumetric potential, high-pressure density, long cycle life, and low self-discharge property, play a major role. So, the high energy density of batteries would be attained by advancing high-capacity electrodes materials. On the other hand, continuous discharge of toxic metals into the aquatic system is harmful to the organism's life and ecosystem, while the discontinuous supply of energy leads to a continuous mismatch between supply and demand. Both these aspects are serious issues in terms of supply and demand, and to meet their effective control and exceeding level is needed.
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) represent emerging hybrid materials consisting of organic ligands and a regular array of positively charged metal ions. MOFs are indeed inspired sacrificial templates owing to their high porosity, regulated and well-defined geometry possessing nanochannels with tunable size, shape, dimensionality, and surface environment. However, MOFs' attractive features are tempered by poor physical strength, low conductivity, low processability, and inferior electrochemical stability. Despite the tailored feature, MOF-based composites consisting of improved overall charge-transport properties without changing the original topology could be prepared. Notably, developing hybrid MOFs-based composites with ordered molecular architecture by controlled polymerization is a highly attractive strategy to prepare the derivative materials with improved properties. The adoption of MOFs with polymers (hybrid composites) having controlled and distributed (cross-linked) structure is becoming an important material because of several properties such as the facile strategy of combining MOFs with polymer in contrast to individual approach of MOFs ad polymers.
The characteristic of this Research Topic is to create a relationship among processing, topological structure, electronic conductivity of MOFs, coordinated MOFs and their related hybrid MOFs/polymer composites as functional materials to give a glimpse into the potential applications, including but not limited to lithium-ion/lithium-air batteries, Zinc-ion/Zinc-air batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, supercapacitors, memory devices, chemical sensing, and removing potentially toxic pollutants from the environment.
High-quality Original Research, Review, Mini Review, and perspective article types are welcome for submission to this Research Topic. Themes of interest include but are not limited to:
• Functionalization/isoreticulation of MOFs using high-yield carbon precursor-materials development to application.
• Rational design of hybrid composite with diverse functions for multiple applications.
• Introduction of single-source carbon precursors.
• Controlling the overall topology and porosity of the hybrid composite material.
• Pyrolysis, structural characteristics, and stability of MOF-based hybrid composites.
• Implications of MOFs-based composite for environmental remediation.
• Developing MOFs-based adsorbents for water and soil decontamination.
• Controlled the polymerization using MOF template.
• 3D printed MOFs-based composites.
