Ning-Yu Huang

TL;DR: A hydrophilic metal-organic framework, [Zn2(btm)2], where H2btm is bis(5-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)methane, has quasi-discrete pores that can induce conformational changes in the flexible guest molecules, weakening 1,3-butadiene adsorption through a large bending energy penalty.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the catalytic active metal center can cooperate with neighboring hydroxide ligands to boost the photocatalytic CO2 reduction and serve not only as strong hydrogen-bonding donors to stabilize the initial Co-CO2 adduct but also local proton sources to facilitate the C-O bond breaking.

TL;DR: An intermediate-sized molecular sieving (iSMS) effect in a metal–organic framework (MAF-41) designed with restricted flexibility, which also exhibits superhydrophobicity and ultrahigh thermal/chemical stabilities is reported.

TL;DR: Gas adsorption isotherms/kinetics, single-crystal X-ray diffraction, and computational simulations revealed that the oxidation gives additional guest recognition sites, which improve thermodynamic selectivity, and reduces the framework flexibility, which generate kinetic selectivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, an anionic metal-organic framework with a host and a cationic photosensitizer was self-assembled into a photocatalytic system Ru@Cu-HHTP.