Journal of Materials Chemistry is planning to produce a themed issue on Integrating Functionality into Metal-Organic Frameworks in 2012. Please e-mail the editorial office, materials-rsc@rsc.org, if you are interested in contributing an article.
The Guest Editors of the issue will be Professor Stefan Kaskel (Dresden, Germany) and Professor Roland Fischer (Bochum, Germany).
Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) have set records in recent years regarding specific surface area and pore volume. The field of MOFs has exploded moving from applications in adsorption towards more and more rational integration of specific functions revealing novel applications in drug delivery and sensing, including attractive mechanical and magnetic properties. Specific functionalization allows for the integration of chiral groups for enantioselective catalysis and separation. The search for very large pores and higher specific surface area remains a key challenge in the rapidly expanding field of MOFs, especially in catalysis and high pressure gas storage. High porosity enables anchoring of molecular catalysts, impregnation with catalyst precursors, or adsorption of larger drug molecules in MOFs for fine chemical transformation, nanoparticle formation, sensing, or drug delivery. Self assembly and thin film techniques are essential for device integration of such novel porous materials.
The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is
November 1.
Manuscripts can be submitted using the RSC’s on-line submissions service. Please clearly mark that the manuscript is submitted for the themed issue on Integrating Functionality into Metal-Organic Frameworks (short: MOFs).
Please would you inform the editorial office by e-mail at materials-rsc@rsc.org as soon as possible if you plan to submit to the issue and whether your contribution will be original research or a review-type article. We would like to have a list of authors who intend to contribute as soon as possible.
