Metal-Organic Frameworks in Analytical Sample Preparation and Sensing

Metal-organic Frameworks in Analytical Sample Preparation and Sensing presents all the areas of applications of metal-organic frameworks in analytical sample preparation. Metal-organic frameworks are crystalline coordination polymers with robust and stable crystal structures, high synthetic tunability, and interesting properties for their use in analytical applications, including their detailed use as sorbents in miniaturized-extraction procedures and as components in sensors.

This book also provides important information about the synthesis and characterization of these materials, with useful tips written by experts on the subject with respect to their conditioning, handling, and recycling. Their outstanding properties, adsorptive capabilities, and structural diversity are also highlighted. This will help experts in the field to select the proper metal-organic framework for a particular analytical application.

• Provides analytical scientists with a unified reference guide for the use of metal-organic frameworks in miniaturized-extraction methods and sensing.
• Covers aspects related to the development, characterization, conditioning and handling of metal-organic frameworks. Issues of scale-up will be covered too.
• Addresses the proper metal-organic framework for a particular analytical miniaturized method.

Verónica Pino is Full Professor at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Materials for Chemical Analysis (MAT4LL). She has conducted research stays at Wake Forest University (NC, USA), the Canary Institute of Agrarian Research (Spain), Iowa State University (IA, USA), The University of Toledo (OH, USA), and Université Claude Bernard (Lyon, France) and holds a Ramón y Cajal research associate position at ULL, awarded in 2010. She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and more than 30 book chapters and is co-author of two international patents, one of which has been licensed. She has edited several books on analytical separation science, as well as a book on metal-organic frameworks, and has served as Principal Investigator on multiple Spanish government–funded research projects. She currently serves as an Editor for Analytica Chimica Acta (Elsevier).

Dr. Pasán is Distinguished Researcher at University of La laguna, and member of Laboratory of Materials for Chemical Analysis (MAT4LL). He obtained his PhD in Physics in 2006, obtaining the Doctorate Extraordinary Award. He has performed research stays in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (France), and Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (Valencia, Spain). She has published more than 150 research publications, and 1 book chapters, with an h-index of 41 and over 4700 citations. He has been participated in more than 10 research projects with funding of the Spanish Government, and he is Academic Editor of Nanomaterials.

María José Trujillo-Rodríguez is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the University of La Laguna. She has worked as a researcher at Iowa State University (USA), Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain), and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain) through research project contracts and the competitive Juan de la Cierva formación fellowship (MICIU/AEI). She has authored more than 40 research publications and more than 10 book chapters and has co-edited a book on metal-organic frameworks for Elsevier. She has served as Principal Investigator on 5 research projects and has collaborated on 11 additional projects as well as 2 agreements with Spanish companies.