Metal-Organic Frameworks in Biomedical and Environmental Field, 1st ed. 2021

This book joins an international and interdisciplinary group of leading experts on the biomedical, energy and environmental applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). The resulting overview covers everything from the environmentally friendly and scale up synthesis of MOFs, their application in green energy generation and storage, and water purification to their use as drug delivery systems, biosensors, and their association with relevant macromolecules (genes, enzymes).

This book is focused on the interest of MOFs in applications such as the leading ?edge environmental (energy-related) and biomedical fields. The potential of MOFs in these areas is currently progressing at a fast pace, since the wide possibilities that MOFs offer in terms of composition, topology, incorporation of active species (in their porosity, on their external surface or within the framework), and post-synthetic modifications, among others. The aim here is to provide future research goals that emphasize relevant nuances to this class of materials as a whole.  

Chapter 1. Robust and environmentally friendly MOFs.- Chapter 2. Large-Scale Synthesis and Shaping of Metal-Organic Frameworks.- Chapter 3. Green energy generation using Metal-Organic Frameworks.- Chapter 4. The potential of MOFs in the field of electrochemical energy storage.- Chapter 5. Carbon Capture using Metal-Organic Frameworks.- Chapter 6. Computational Screening of MOFs for CO2 capture.- Chapter 7. Water Purification: Removal of Heavy Metals Using Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs).- Chapter 8. Adsorptive purification of water contaminated with hazardous organics by using functionalized metal-organic frameworks.- Chapter 9. MOFs Constructed from Biomolecular Building Blocks.- Chapter 10. Natural polymer based MOF composites.- Chapter 11. Metal-organic frameworks as delivery systems of small drugs and biological gases.- Chapter 12. MOFs and Biomacromolecules for Biomedical Applications.- Chapter 13. Diagnosis Employing MOFs (fluorescence, MRI).- Chapter 14. Biosensing using MOFs.

Patricia Horcajada Cortés is a scientist at the IMDEA Energy Foundation in Madrid, Spain. She has been involved in the material field for more than 15 years, focusing on hybrid porous materials. She has conducted research on all major aspects of this field, which includes synthesis and characterization of porous materials, shaping, and adsorption. With an unconventional and multidisciplinary scientific background (Pharmacy BCs, 2001 and Material science PhD, 2005), she joined the Institut Lavoisier, first as a postdoctoral researcher and later, in 2007, as civil servant researcher of the French Scientific Research Council (CNRS), initiating a totally new field: the biomedical application of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). Dr. Horcajada is considered one of the pioneers in the field of porous hybrid solids and their application in biomedicine. Within the context of a “Ramon y Cajal” contract and a Marie Curie AMAROUT II fellow, she was appointed as Senior Researcher in IMDEA Energy in February 2016. She heads the Unit of Advanced Porous Materials, which deals with the development of new multifunctional materials for strategic applications in energy, environment and health, among other areas.

She has authored 7 book chapters, 9 patents, and 138 publications. With an H^120 articles in fist quartile journals with high impact factors (i.e., Nature Mater., Chem. Rev., Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc.) and a high number of citations (>17000 citations), with over 2000 citations per year in the last five years and more than 2400 citations in 2019. In this sense, 36 articles have been cited more than 100 times, according to data taken from the WoS in August 2020. She has participated in >110 conferences (including 21 invited lectures and 4 plenaries).

Her national and International collaborations have included 66 highly multidisciplinary projects (38 National, 8 European, 4 International) and 6 industrial contracts, coordinating 1 International, 8 Europe

Assembles all the vital knowledge on the synthesis and biomedical and environmental application of specific Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) in over 14 chapters

Summarizes the state of the art of MOFs in biomedical and environmental field

Explores specific scenarios where MOFs prove useful, including energy storage, water purification, and as therapeutic and diagnostic tools