Synthesis of metal-organic frameworks and their immobilization on surfaces Authors Andrea Suárez-Herrera Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) Arántzazu González-Campo Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) DOI: https://doi.org/10.2436/20.2003.01.147 Keywords: Metal-organic framework (MOF), self-assembled monolayer (SAM), surface-coordinated metal-organic framework (SURMOF) Abstract Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials made of metal ions bonded to organic ligands by coordination bonds, resulting in the obtention of structures with two or more dimensions from repeatable units. Lately, research on the use of MOFs in biology has led to the creation of biological MOFs (BioMOFs). In addition, the preparation of MOF films and their growth on functionalized surfaces is required in order to incorporate MOFs into devices and produce surface-coordinated MOFs (SURMOFs). For this reason, SURMOFs’ classification, synthesis and applications are presented in this review. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biographies Andrea Suárez-Herrera, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) Andrea Suárez-Herrera graduated in Chemistry at the University of Barcelona (UB) in 2021. Her career as a researcher began at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), where she completed her final undergraduate project and served an internship under the supervision of Dr. Arántzazu González Campos. She subsequently specialized in Organic Chemistry in a master’s program at the University of Barcelona in 2022 and did her final master’s degree project in that institution’s Inorganic and Organic Chemistry Department under the supervision of Dr. Pere Romea García and Dr. Fèlix Urpí Tubella, in addition to working as a synthetic organic chemist there until 2023. Arántzazu González-Campo, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) Arántzazu González-Campo was granted a doctorate in Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2006. She subsequently joined the Imperial College London (United Kingdom) to direct a project with Toyota Motors (2006-2007) and after that was a Beatriu de Pinós grant-holder (2007-2009) at the University of Twente/MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology (Netherlands). She is currently a Ramón y Cajal researcher, directing the FunNanoSurf group at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). Her research is focused on the development of multifunctional sensitive materials for biomedical and electronic applications, using supramolecular and surface chemistry. Downloads PDF Published 2023-12-15 Issue No. 22 (2023) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Revista de la Societat Catalana de Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Catalan Society of Chemistry (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Revista de la Societat Catalana de Química.Authors answer to Catalan Society of Chemistry for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Catalan Society of Chemistry declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.