EU4MOFs
Combining research and development
to promote technological solutions
Combining research and development
to promote technological solutions
The main aim and objective of the Action is to efficiently transform lab-designed metal-organic framework (MOF) candidates into practical solutions for healthcare, clean water, and sustainable energy. It will be achieved by improving production, developing controllable manufacturing methods, setting publication standards, elucidating structure-activity relationships, and fostering collaboration between industry and academia.
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COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation.
COST Action (EU4MOFs) brings together a network of 41 experts from 20 COST full member countries and from 2 international partnered. In this Action, leading multi- and interdisciplinary expertise is brought together, ranging from chemical sciences, materials engineering, physics, computational science, nanotechnology, (nano)medicine, and biology.
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EU4MOFs aims at increasing control and customization over the interplay between (re)activity, selectivity, efficiency and processability of MOF materials to ensure optimal functional properties at these three length scales. EU4MOFs will focus on paving the way towards the development of nano-, meso- and macro-scale high-performing MOF materials for three high-need applications: (cancer) nanomedicine, wastewater treatment and energy storage. To achieve this, manufacturing technologies based on bottom-up synthesis and top-down engineering strategies will be consolidated, and high throughput computational screening and machine learning methods will be integrated to improve structure property predictions and the resulting materials performance. By uniting interdisciplinary researches from the fields of (bio)chemistry, materials engineering, physics, nanomedicine, pharmacy, and computational science, together with industrial partners, EU4MOFs will contribute to substantially advance the current frontiers of MOF materials from the laboratory bench towards industrial-scale, in order to ultimately generate societal impact.