Growth of Porous MOFs on functionalized reduced graphene oxide

MOF materials are highly crystalline porous coordination networks built up in 3-, 2- and 1-dimensions connecting metal cations/clusters trough exo-donor organic ligands. In the last 25 years this new class of functional materials has been intensively investigated and the knowledge developed so far allows us to explore increasingly complex materials and many diverse fields of application. Of particular interest is the development of MOF’s composites in order to combine and improve the properties of the two component materials. The aim of this work is focussed on the obtainment of porous MOF/graphene composites1 to be applied as efficient gas storage materials.