Abstract
The high surface area metal organic-frameworks (MOFs) are highly porous structures made of distinct inorganic and organic building blocks, so their chemical and structural multiplicity is vast. While that variety has led to lots of potential applications, including fuel cell, solar cell, supercapacitor, lithium-ion batteries, gas storage and conversion, it also means that finding the optimal MOF for a specific application is hard to reach. This chapter discusses the design approach of MOFs based on clean energy applications in four categories. It starts with an overview of the MOFs approach for the giant problem of clean energy. It then explains how the MOFs material is a strong candidate to overcome this problem by comparing the different design approaches. By the end of the chapter, the challenges facing to commercialize this technique is discussed.
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