Environmental Sustainability

We develop MOF-based systems for gas capture and storage, gas separation, and pollutant removal, contributing to more energy-efficient processes, cleaner environment, and the mitigation of industrial emissions.

• Gas capture and storage

• Gas separation
• Pollutant removal

Selected publications:

Bunzen H.*, Sertan Gökmen B., Kalytta-Mewes A., Grzywa M., Wojciechowski J., Hütter J., Hehn A.-S., Volkmer D.: Experimental and Theoretical Insights on Gas Trapping of Noble Gases in MFU-4 Type Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chem. Eur. J. 2024, doi.org/10.1002/chem.202403574.

Heinz K., Rogge S. M. J., Kalytta-Mewes A., Volkmer D., Bunzen H.*: MOFs for long-term gas storage: exploiting kinetic trapping in ZIF-8 for on-demand and stimuli-controlled SF6 release, Inorg. Chem. Front. 2023, 10, 4763. DOI: 10.1039/d3qi01007d.

Bunzen H.*, Kalytta-Mewes A., van Wüllen L., Volkmer D.: Long-term entrapment and temperature-controlled-release of SF6 gas in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1851-1859.

Bunzen H.*, Kolbe F., Kalytta-Mewes A., Sastre G., Brunner E., Volkmer D.: Achieving large volumetric gas storage capacity in metal-organic frameworks by kinetic trapping: A case study of xenon loading in MFU-4, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 10191-10197.