Recent advancements in metal-organic frameworks for green applications

A series of environmental and energy issues, such as global warming, water pollution, acid rain, and energy shortage, have to be settled urgently. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are compounds consisting of metal ions or clusters coordinated to organic ligands, which show great promise for alleviating or mitigating these challenges owing to their outstanding physical and chemical properties. In this review, we summarize the recent advances of MOFs in the fields of green applications, including carbon capture, harmful gas removal, sewage treatment, and green energy storage. In addition, the challenges and prospects of the large-scale commercialized use of MOFs in handling environmental issues are also discussed. (C) 2021, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.

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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) show great promise in addressing environmental and energy issues, such as carbon capture and harmful gas removal. Despite facing challenges, there are bright prospects for their large-scale commercialized use.