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NATURE MATERIALS
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 174-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT5050
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- European Research Council (ERC) under European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (NanoMOFdeli) [ERC-2016-COG 726380]
- EPSRC IAA Partnership Development Award [RG/75759]
- Royal Society through a University Research Fellowship
- EPSRC [EP/N014960/1]
- EU [312483 ESTEEM2, 291522 3DIMAGE]
- MINECO [MAT2016-80285-p]
- H2020 (MSCA-RISE/Nanomed Project)
- GV [PROMETEOII/2014/004]
- EPSRC [EP/R008779/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1645061, EP/K503757/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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A critical bottleneck for the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel has been the development of materials capable of storing it in a suffciently compact form at ambient temperature. Here we report the synthesis of a porous monolithic metal-organic framework (MOF), which after successful packing and densification reaches 259 cm(3) (STP) cm(-3) capacity. This is the highest value reported to date for conformed shape porous solids, and represents a greater than 50% improvement over any previously reported experimental value. Nanoindentation tests on the monolithic MOF showed robust mechanical properties, with hardness at least 130% greater than that previously measured in its conventional MOF counterparts. Our findings represent a substantial step in the application of mechanically robust conformed and densified MOFs for high volumetric energy storage and other industrial applications.
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