Confinement of metal-organic polyhedra in silica nanopores. Academic Article

abstract

• Metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs) have been incorporated into silica nanopores for the first time. Three MOPs with identical geometries but different ligand functionality (namely tert-butyl, hydroxyl, and sulfonic groups) were employed. A typical mesoporous silica, SBA-15, with a two-dimensional hexagonal pore regularity was used as the host. In comparison with bulk MOPs, which prefer to aggregate, MOPs confined in silica nanopores can be well dispersed, making the active sites and pores in the MOPs accessible. These dispersed MOPs showed apparently superior H(2) adsorption capacity in comparison with aggregated bulk MOPs. Moreover, the thermal stability of the MOPs was enhanced upon their confinement in silica nanopores.

authors

• Zhou, Hongcai

published proceedings

• J Am Chem Soc

altmetric score

• 3.25

author list (cited authors)

• Sun, L., Li, J., Lu, W., Gu, Z., Luo, Z., & Zhou, H.

citation count

• 113

complete list of authors

• Sun, Lin-Bing||Li, Jian-Rong||Lu, Weigang||Gu, Zhi-Yuan||Luo, Zhiping||Zhou, Hong-Cai

publication date

• September 2012

publisher

• American Chemical Society (ACS)  Publisher

published in

• Journal of the American Chemical Society  Journal

keywords

• 0904 Chemical Engineering

PubMed Central ID

• 22937898

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1021/ja3063925

start page

• 15923

end page

• 15928

volume

• 134

issue

• 38

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja3063925