Magnesium batteries: Current state of the art, issues and future perspectives

• Rana Mohtadi and
• Fuminori Mizuno

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1291–1311, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.143

• study proposed using coordinatively unsaturated metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as nano media to immobilize magnesium phenolate and/or Mg(TFSI)2/triglyme electrolytes (phenolates were found to be more soluble in triglyme than in tetrahydrofuran) [50]. As the phenolates were strongly interacting with the

Neutral and charged boron-doped fullerenes for CO₂ adsorption

• Suchitra W. de Silva,
• Aijun Du,
• Wijitha Senadeera and
• Yuantong Gu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 413–418, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.49

• years metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as solid CO2 adsorbent materials due to their tuneable chemical and physical properties. Particularly, there is growing interest for metal free carbon-based nanomaterials for gas adsorption. Carbon-based nanomaterials such as fullerene, carbon nanotubes

Site-selective growth of surface-anchored metal-organic frameworks on self-assembled monolayer patterns prepared by AFM nanografting

• Tatjana Ladnorg,
• Alexander Welle,
• Stefan Heißler,
• Christof Wöll and
• Hartmut Gliemann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 638–648, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.71

• grown via LPE were investigated and characterized by atomic force microscopy and Fourier-transform infrared microscopy. Keywords: atomic force microscopy (AFM); metal-organic frameworks; nanografting; nanoshaving; SURMOF; Introduction Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly crystalline three

The oriented and patterned growth of fluorescent metal–organic frameworks onto functionalized surfaces

• Jinliang Zhuang,
• Jasmin Friedel and
• Andreas Terfort

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 570–578, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.66

• -assembled monolayer; surface-attached metal–organic framework; Introduction Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a fascinating class of organic–inorganic hybrid materials with nanometer-sized pores. The size and density of the pores renders these materials with extraordinary large free volumes and inner

Micro- and mesoporous solids: From science to application

• Jörg J. Schneider

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 774–775, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.85

• , geometry and pore dimensions make these materials outstanding with respect to, e.g., catalytic reaction processes, in the area of sensorics, photonics and gas storage (Figure 1). In the realm of gas storage, mesoporous metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) appeared on the scene a couple of years ago and have

On the reticular construction concept of covalent organic frameworks

• Binit Lukose,
• Agnieszka Kuc,
• Johannes Frenzel and
• Thomas Heine

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 60–70, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.8

• preservation throughout the assembly process are the key factors that lead to the design and synthesis of reticular structures. One of the first families of materials synthesized using reticular chemistry were the so-called Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) [4]. They are composed of metal-oxide connectors, which