Microreactor with silver-loaded metal-organic framework films for gas-phase reactions

ROCÍO L. PAPURELLO; JOSÉ L. FERNÁNDEZ; EDUARDO E. MIRÓ; JUAN M. ZAMARO

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2017 vol. 313 p. 1468 - 1476

1385-8947

Microreactors of copper foils with microchannels having zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) films were developed. The films were obtained by direct solvothermal synthesis on the microchannels; they presented micrometric thicknesses and homogeneity, and were activated with highly dispersed silver species. The MOF-based microreactors showed high activity and stability in the carbon monoxide oxidation, which is a benchmark for exothermic gas-phase reactions. The results could bring new perspectives in the development of microreactors for heterogeneous catalytic gas-phase reactions based on other MOFfilms as supports of active phases.