PolyOxoMetalate based Open-Frameworks (POM-OFs)

What is it about?

Polyoxometalate-based Open Frameworks (POM-OFs) are extended architectures incorporating metal-oxide cluster units and comprise an emergent family of materials with diverse topologies, structural flexibility and functionality at the nanoscale. Not only do POM-OFs present a wide range of configurable structures, but also a have a vast array of physical properties which reflect the properties of the various ‘modular’ molecular inputs.

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Why is it important?

This review describes the methodologies that can be used to construct POM-OF materials with catalytic, electronic, and structural properties and discuss the advantages compared to the metal organic framework analogues. We also show that it is possible to construct POM-OF materials and design or fine tune their functionality by manipulating the initially generated building block libraries.