In the world of chemical biological defense research, new technologies are typically highly specific and developed in ...

Researchers treated a MOF, known as Fe-BTC, with dopamine, which polymerized to polydopamine (PDA) pinning the polymer inside the MOF. The final composite, named Fe-BTC/PDA, can quickly and ...

Polymer-grade propylene (>99.5% ... flexible cage windows and non-selective intercrystalline defects limit the MOF membranes' molecular sieving capability. Besides, MOF membranes are brittle ...

The team attributes these results to the brush-like arrangement (polymer brushes) of the hydrocarbon chains on the MOFs. After being grafted to the MOF materials, they tend to form "coils"—a ...