Permeable metal-organic frameworks for fuel (gas) storage applications

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) or porous coordination polymers are a significantly unique section of crystalline porous materials over other conventional materials such as zeolites, polymeric storage materials, which are synthesized as robust clusters of metal ions and organic ligands. The superior properties of MOFs, including permanent porosity, good thermal stability, and flexible functionality, and facile host–guest interactions of MOFs make them versatile and promising materials with diversified potential applications such as fuel storage, separation, and catalysis. In this chapter, we systematically summarize the recent scientific inventions in the field of MOFs for fuel storage of various eco-friendly (H2, C2H2, and CH4) and non-eco-friendly (CO2) gases with representative examples with versatile functionalities with their fuel uptake and working capacities at various parameters such as pressure and temperature.