Water-Stable Metal-Organic Frameworks for Water Adsorption

In the past decade, tremendous efforts have concentrated on the synthesis of stable metal-organic frameworks to expand the inventory of their applications. While classic synthetic routes, such as isoreticular chemistry, have been employed to modify and enhance branch known structures of stable MOFs, new synthetic routes, such as preformed metal-containing clusters and use of modulators as competitive species during crystallization, have been discovered to enrich the landscape of stable MOFs. Since these later routes were reported during the past few years, explorations on these new stable MOFs are underestimated. In this chapter, we would give a brief introduction to highlight some prototypes of water-stable MOFs and their structural features and discuss the development of their uses in the water adsorption to practical applications.