Gas Adsorption in Flexible COF-506 and COF-506-Cu.

Flexible covalent-organic frameworks (COFs) display a variety of guest-dependent dynamic behaviors, but because these are an emerging class of materials, very little experimental adsorption data exists. This work examines the adsorption properties of COF-506 and COF-506-Cu utilizing various adsorbates as probe molecules. These materials have small surface areas (<100 m/g) but still have significant capacity for methanol and isopropanol compared to activated carbon, even though the COF contains approximately 1/10th the surface area of many activated carbons.