Metal-organic frameworks

Patent Granted Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are compounds consisting of metal ions or clusters coordinated to often[clarification needed] rigid organic molecules to form one-, two-, or three-dimensional structures that can be porous. More formally a metal–organic framework, abbreviated to MOF, is a coordination network with organic ligands containing potential voids. A coordination network is a coordination compound extending, through repeating coordination entities, in 1 dimension, but with cross-links between two or more individual chains, loops, or spiro-links, or a coordination compound extending through repeating coordination entities in 2 or 3 dimensions and finally a coordination polymer is a coordination compound with repeating coordination entities extending in 1, 2, or 3 dimensions.