Sie King Ling (Honours Student)
Curtin University of Technology

Project Title
Synthesis of the Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Application for adsorption and catalytic reaction in water system and gas system.

Biography
Sie King (Aldan) Ling is a final year student at Curtin University of Technology majoring in Chemical Engineering.

Start Date
November 2008

Project Details
Metal Organic Frameworks (MOF) is a new class of crystalline porous inorganic-organic hybrid compounds that have a cage structure of metal ions coordinated to organic compounds. Due to their fascinating properties and potential applications, derived from the combination of molecularly defined linkers and large crystalline pore spaces, MOF have stimulated numerous studies regarding both the characterisation of known structures as well as the design of new systems. Thus, MOF have attracted increasing academic and industrial interest in the last few years. The possible applications of MOFs are gas purification, gas separation, catalysis and sensors.
This research project is on how to apply high-throughput methods to perform several metal organic frameworks (MOFs) compounds such as MOF-5 and MOF-74 in order to study the influence of reaction parameters on the synthesis.
With the purpose of eliminating a variety of toxicity substances in water and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in gas, the MOFs will be used in adsorption and catalytic reaction for water system with the presence of oxidizing agents, such as Hydrogen Peroxide and Peroxymonosulfate. Further study of MOF will be focused on the adsorption and catalytic reactions in gas systems.