Key Properties & Advantages

• Cobalt-Driven Activity: Cobalt nodes provide Lewis acid sites and redox activity, enhancing catalytic performance in reduction/oxidation reactions and enabling electroactive behavior in energy devices.
• High Porosity & Surface Area: Features a well-defined porous network with a large BET surface area (typically 1200–1600 m²/g) and uniform pore size (~1.1 nm), facilitating efficient molecular diffusion, adsorption, and catalytic site accessibility.
• Exceptional Chemical Stability: Exhibits robust stability in aqueous and organic environments (pH 3–11) and moderate thermal resistance (up to 300°C under inert conditions), outperforming many MOFs in practical operational settings.
• Processability: Easily fabricated into powders, thin films, or composites with other materials (e.g., cement, polymers, substrates), expanding its applicability across industries.
• Tunable Functionality: Retains structural integrity during post-synthetic modification (e.g., metal doping, ligand functionalization), allowing customization for target applications.

Core Applications

Biosensing & Disease Diagnosis

• Enhances catalytic and electrocatalytic signals in biosensors, enabling sensitive detection of biomolecules (e.g., biomarkers, pathogens) via amplified electrochemical or optical responses.
• Its porous structure can encapsulate recognition elements (e.g., antibodies, enzymes), improving specificity in diagnostic assays.

Cement Composites

• Improves compressive strength by reinforcing the cement matrix and reducing porosity through controlled particle dispersion.
• Refines microstructure by facilitating more uniform hydration of cement particles, enhancing durability and resistance to cracking.

NOₓ Selective Reduction Catalysis

• Exhibits high activity for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOₓ using CO as a reducing agent, even under oxygen-rich conditions (mimicking industrial flue gas environments).
• Cobalt nodes act as active sites for NOₓ adsorption and activation, promoting efficient conversion to N₂ and CO₂.

Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction

• Demonstrates exceptional performance in reducing CO₂ to CO under light irradiation, with high CO production yields attributed to cobalt’s redox activity and the framework’s ability to concentrate CO₂ molecules.
• Its porous structure enhances light absorption and charge separation, overcoming common limitations of low efficiency in photocatalytic systems.

Supercapacitor Thin Films

• Display robust electrochemical performance, including high specific capacitance, excellent cycling stability (≥10,000 cycles), and rapid charge-discharge rates.
• The cobalt-based framework enables pseudocapacitive behavior, complementing the electric double-layer capacitance of porous carbon substrates for enhanced energy storage.

Technical Specifications

Quality Assurance

• X-ray diffraction (XRD) confirms zeolitic topology and crystallinity.
• Nitrogen adsorption-desorption analysis verifies surface area and pore size distribution.
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) ensures uniform particle morphology (powders) or film coverage (thin films).
• Catalytic activity testing (for selected batches) validates functionality in model reactions (e.g., CO oxidation).

Packaging & Storage

• Storage: Store at room temperature in a dry environment. Avoid prolonged exposure to strong acids or reducing agents to preserve structural integrity. Shelf life is ≥12 months under proper storage conditions.

Why Choose ZIF-67?