“The Chemistry of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications”

“The Chemistry of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications” aims to provide a complete reference book to researchers within the metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) field, covering a range of topics including topology networks, applications and characterisation techniques. MOFs are materials which contain metal ion centres and organic bridging ligands and are often, but not always, porous. Over the past 15 years the field has proliferated a huge number of publications with over 10,000 MOF structures published. More recently the literature has moved towards testing MOFs for a range of applications and considering how materials are formed and scaled-up. The book reflects this change with several chapters detailing possible applications as well as the fundamental chemistry of the materials. The book is split into several different parts with the two largest sections devoted to the metal nodes and linkers along with the resulting functionality. It is noteworthy that the appendix contains the names of companies commercially supplying MOFs along with datasheets for the seven most stable materials, which is useful but could have been extended to include a wider range of materials.