Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Solid State Hydrogen Storage System: A Critical Review

Abstract

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of hybrid porous materials which consists inorganic and organic linkers bounded to metal ions. The important properties of MOFs such as greater surface area, synthetic versatility, variable pore size, long range order and inherent structure makes MOFs very interesting in the field of hydrogen storage. In this manuscript we are reporting a detailed review on metal organic frameworks with the help of available previous reported literature. This review summarizes MOFs structure aspect, synthesis, nomenclature, progress of MOFs, gas storage applications, energy consumption, hydrogen storage targets, tabulation of MOFs for hydrogen storage and limitations of synthesized MOFs system related technologies, present challenges and importance of MOFs as hydrogen storage system.