Net-clipping is a strategy for the topological prediction of MOFs built with reduced-symmetry linkers. It is based on the deconstruction of nets by clipping half of the connectivity in tetrahedral, hexagonal, cubic or hexagonal prismatic nodes.
A topologically diverse MOF dataset, NU-topoMOF-2025, was constructed and screened to identify topology-based design rules for materials with enhanced hydrogen storage performance.
In this work, we report the synthesis of zirconium- and rare-earth-based metal–organic frameworks using a linker desymmetrization strategy, enabling access to previously unattainable topologies, defective clusters, and enhanced catalytic activity.
A T-shaped [2]rotaxane linker was used to make a pcu MOF, designated UWDM-16. SCXRD showed the rotaxanes occupy pores in the material and 2H SSNMR verified that the macrocyclic wheel is mobile in the solid-state.
Face-transitive nia-d MOFs flip C2 adsorption via linker fluorination for one-step ethylene purification.