Working Group 1

Objectives

• Establishing the most potentially sustainable and cost-efficient methods for the synthesis and functionalization of MOF materials with homogenous size distribution as nanoparticles (10-200 nm), thin-films (μm), and macroscopic materials (mm-cm) into three-dimensional arbitrary geometries.
• Defining minimum information reporting guidelines for synthetic methods.
• Practice guidelines for safe handling, disposal, and sustainable life cycles of MOF materials.

Tasks

• Screening of existing protocols and identification of those that could potentially meet ‘sustainable’ requirements, which will be defined in collaboration of academic and industrial network members.
• Selection of archetypal MOFs for each sub-group depending on scale and application.
• Selection of synthetic methods for archetypal MOFs with higher sustainable and technological potential: i) use of (organic) minimal solvent/solvent-free methods; ii) faster production methods (already some MOFs can be produced in 15 s with microwave, but this knowledge has to be transferred to other structures); and iii) the strategies that give rise to higher yields and more stable structures.
• Consolidating computational tools and modelling approaches to predict and optimize structures and synthetic conditions
• Creation of the database with available synthetic methods within COST Action to make MOF synthesis more available for different countries

Deliverables

• Publication of a perspective article that includes an overview lab-synthesis and functionalization strategies with sustainable and technology potential and mostly focusing on each length scale and application.
• Report focused on suitable computational methods for optimized design of MOFs.
• Public availability of MOF synthesis and optimized methods via website of the Action.

WG1 Leader: Prof. Dariusz MATOGA (dariusz.matoga@uj.edu.pl)

WG1 Co-Leader: Dr. Anna SINELSHCHIKOVA (anna.sinelshchikova@bcmaterials.net)