Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Jing Li

Wei Liu

Kunhao Li

Baiyan Li

Xiaoying Huang

David H Olson

Hao Wang

Zhichao Hu

Qihan Gong

Mojgan Roushan

Haohan Wu

Xiao Zhang

Anjian Lan

George Z Wei

Yang Fang

Kun Zhu

Novel radioactive iodide molecular traps, in which one or more metal atoms are functionalized by coordinating to an amine containing two or more nitrogens, and methods of using the molecular traps to capture radioactive iodide.

Metal-organic framework based molecular traps for capture of radioactive organic iodides from nuclear waste

The present disclosure relates to novel metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) comprising tetratopic ligands with small pore apertures. The present disclosure further relates to methods of utilizing the MOFs of the disclosure to separate hydrocarbons through adsorptive processes.

MOF compositions for selective separation of hydrocarbons

Inorganic-organic hybrid structures having both ionic and coordinate bonds in a molecular cluster possessing the features of structural diversity, high luminescence and stability, and excellent dispersibility, suitable for use as lighting phosphors.

Luminescent and dispersible hybrid materials combining ionic and coordinate bonds in molecular crystals

Highly thermal and photo-stable inorganic-organic hybrid phosphor compounds, in which a copper (I) halide module is coordinated with a multi-dentate organic ligand. Also disclosed are semiconductor and light emitting devices comprising these materials, including light emitting diodes, and methods of preparing these materials and devices.

Precursor based method of synthesis and fabrication of hybrid lighting phosphors with high quantum efficiency, and significantly enhanced thermal and photostability

The present application discloses the first rare-earth-free metal organic framework (MOF) yellow phosphors that can be effectively excited by blue light and assembled in a white light emission (WLED) device with a blue chip. The compounds of the present invention exhibit significantly enhanced emission intensity compared to the constituent ligand and high quantum yield and high thermal and moisture stability and photoluminescence. The invention also includes light emitting devices comprising any of these MOF yellow phosphors and methods of preparing these compounds and devices.

Metal organic framework (MOF) yellow phosphors and their applications in white light emitting devices

Inorganic-organic hybrid IB-VII semiconductor compounds, in which a Group IB transition metal halide salt is coordinated with an organic heteroaromatic ligand, wherein at least one ring atom of said heteroaromatic ligand is a heteroatom independently selected from N, O and S and the Group IB metal of the halide salt is coordinated to a ring heteroatom. Also disclosed are semiconductor and light emitting devices comprising these materials, including light emitting diodes, and methods of preparing these materials and devices.

Light emitting hybrid semiconductors based on IB-VII binary compounds

This application discloses a new family of inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductor bulk materials built on periodic nanostructured 2D layers of ZnS that emit bright white light with high quantum efficiency. These ZnS-based crystalline inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductors have well defined and precisely controllable crystal structure and composition. Their optical emission properties, including intensity, quantum yield, and color quality, can be systematically tuned by varying the composition of both inorganic and organic components. Methods for preparing these materials, use of these materials as a new type of single-phased white light emitting phosphors, and their applications in making WLED devices are also disclosed.

Solid-state compositions and methods for generating white light

Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs) characterized by organic ligands consisting of imidazole ligands that are either essentially all 2-chloroimidazole ligands or essentially all 2-bromoimidazole ligands are disclosed. Methods for separating propane and propene with the ZIFs of the present invention, as well as other ZIFs, are also disclosed.

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks for kinetic separation of propane and propene

Provided is a method for adsorbing or separating carbon dioxide from a mixture of gases by passing the gas mixture through a porous three-dimensional polymeric coordination compound having a plurality of layers of two-dimensional arrays of repeating structural units, which results in a lower carbon dioxide content in the gas mixture. Thus, this invention provides useful compositions and methods for removal of greenhouse gases, in particular CO, from industrial flue gases or from the atmosphere.

Methods and compositions for removing carbon dioxide from a gaseous mixture

Crystalline inorganic-organic hybrid structures having a plurality of layers of a repeating unit characterized by a first organic ligand layer, a second organic ligand layer, and a two-dimensional semiconducting inorganic double layer having two opposing surfaces therebetween, wherein the two-dimensional semiconducting inorganic double layer is characterized by two single atom thick layers of a II-VI chalcogenide compound; and the first organic ligand layer and the second organic ligand layer are attached to the two opposing surfaces of the two-dimensional semiconducting inorganic double layer through a covalent bond or a coordinate covalent bond between the compounds of the organic ligand layers and the metal cation species of the II-VI chalcogenide compounds, so that the semiconducting inorganic double layer is directed by the compounds of the two opposing organic layers to form ordered crystal lattices. Methods for the preparation of the hybrid structures are also disclosed.

Compositions and methods for generating white light

This invention provides polymeric coordination compounds capable of forming three-dimensional microporous metal organic frameworks (MMOFs) that are useful for detection of explosive compounds. The polymeric coordination compounds comprise a repeating unit comprising a transition metal coordinated to at least one binding member of a bidentate binding site on each of two polyfunctional ligands and one binding site of a bis-pyridine exodentate bridging ligand, for example, the repeating unit comprising formula [Zn(bpdc)(bpee)] (bpdc=4,4'-biphenyldicarboxylate; bpee=1,2-bipyridylethene). Methods of preparing such polymeric coordination compounds, methods of using them for detection of explosive compounds, and sensors or sensor arrays comprising such polymeric coordination compounds for detection of explosive compounds, especially those comprising one or more nitro (&#x2014;NO) groups, are also disclosed.

Compositions and methods for detection of explosives

Hybrid crystalline organic-inorganic quantum confined systems are disclosed, which contain alternating layers of a bifunctional organic ligand and a II-VI semiconducting chalcogenide, wherein the semiconducting chalcogenide layers contain chalcogenides have the formula MQ, in which M is independently selected from II-VI semiconductor cationic species and Q is independently selected from S, Se and Te; and the bifunctional organic ligands of each organic ligand layer are bonded by a first functional group to an element M of an adjacent II-VI semiconducting chalcogenide layer and by a second functional group to an element M from the adjacent opposing II-VI semiconducting chalcogenide layer, so that the adjacent opposing II-VI semiconducting chalcogenide layers are linked by the bifunctional organic ligands of the organic ligand layers. Optical absorption experiments show that these systems produce a significant blue shift in their optical absorption edges, 1.2-1.5 eV, compared to a shift of 1.0 electron volt by the best grown II-VI or II-V semiconducting quantum colloidal dots. In addition, the II-VI confined layers in these systems possess a perfectly periodic arrangement.

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Jing Li