Scientists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and three other institutions have discovered a way to synthesize a special type of organic solids that are lightweight, intrinsically porous and offer unique properties and applications.
These solids, known as porphyrin-based covalent organic frameworks (POR-COFs), are the focus of research by experimentalists at the university and computational material scientists at the Colorado School of Mines, Harbin Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.
Siamak Nejati, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the leader of the experimental work, said, “This work builds on the discovery of covalent organic frameworks, or COFs, made almost two decades ago. COFs are beautiful two-dimensional or three-dimensional porous structures held together by strong covalent bonds.”
