Evaluation of Hydrophobic, Hydrophilic, and Water Adsorption Properties of Microporous Metal-Organic Framework Materials by Unified Isotherm Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Global challenges posed by freshwater scarcity and the water-energy nexus drive demand for novel macromolecular design of tailored nanostructures endowed with a variety of hydrophilic and hydrophobic features. Offering potential to meet this demand, metal-organic framework (MOF) materials are synthesized from coordinated formations that create versatile reticular structures with variable water adsorption affinities. However, advances in the fundamental understanding of water interactions within these structures are impeded by the failure of classical analyses to identify mechanisms of interaction, connect fundamental isotherm types, and provide appropriate benchmarks for assessment. Proposed herein is a novel definition of hydrophobicity that is coherently coupled with a unified isotherm a

SUBMITTER: Rutherford SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12461938 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature