Mark Kalaj

TL;DR: Both covalent and coordinative PSM have been used to create hierarchal MOFs, MOF-based porous liquids, and other unusual MOF materials, and the view on future directions of the field is highlighted.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple, scalable, bench-top approach to covalently tethered nylon-MOF polymer composite materials through an interfacial polymerization technique was presented, which demonstrated nearly an order of magnitude higher catalytic activity for the breakdown of a chemical warfare simulant (dimethyl-4-nitrophenyl phosphate, DMNP) compared to MOFs that are non-covalently, physically entrapped in nylon, thus highlighting the importance of MOF-polymer hybridization.

TL;DR: Self-assembled MOF monolayers (SAMMs) were assembled at a liquid-air interface to produce films that are 87 wt% (89 vol%) MOF and retain the crystallinity and porosity of the MOF particles.

TL;DR: Fe-HAF-1 presents a new addition to a small group of chelate-based MOFs and provides a rare framework whose 3D connectivity is exclusively formed by metal-hydroxamate coordination, resulting in efficient separation of organic dyes and other charged species in a size-selective fashion.