The 2025 Nobel Price in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of Metal-organic frameworks, so called “MOFs”.
MOFs have been studied extensively at the Georgia Tech NMR laboratory. Below are just three highlights, where our lab has contributed towards the development and understanding of MOF-based materials:
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J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 20, 12862–12870; Erkang Zhou (Lively group) studied the flexibility of linker molecules in MOFs and the associated sorption of gases. The model of a “Molecular Saloon Door” could be quantified by 2H solid-state NMR.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2023 15 (34), 40623-40632; Arvind Ganesan (Nair Group) studied artificially induced defects in deuterated MOFs using 1H-MQ MAS NMR.
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J Ind. Chem. Mater., 2025, Advance Article; Hyun June Moon and MingYu Song (Jones Group) studied the dynamics of poly-amines incorporated into MOFs as a function of CO2 loading using 1H T1-T2 correlation experiments.
