Materials Center TU Dresden

Tailor-Made Adsorption Materials

Our business model is to offer a portfolio of standard adsorbents (MOFs, carbons, and silica-based materials), syntheses of materials according to customer requirements, shaping materials to agglomerates in a wide range of shapes and sizes and other services according the characterization of porous materials. Our main focus is to close the gap between MOF science and possible applications in industrial scale. Customers ask us for MOF compounds useful for specific problems, e.g. the filtration of toxic gas mixtures containing ammonia, hydrogen disulfide and/or volatile organic compounds, for gas separation or CO2 capture. We try to find the best solution for this problem by means of economics.

Most MOF syntheses from literature are designed as single crystal synthesis with low space-time yields In contrast to this low scale synthesis, the materials center deals with alternative synthesis methods.

The yield of one synthesis is often thousand fold and higher than the largest yield known from literature.

For almost every application, dust-free pellets or beads are needed. It must be possible to immobilize the adsorbent on a rack without significant loss of material even at high flow rates or other mechanical stress. Our group has established a portfolio of different binders useful for the shaping of MOFs, too.

Our MOF granules show a crush strength of 10 N or higher and only, a small loss of porosity compared with the initial powder.