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Review of the potential and challenges of MOF-based adsorption heat pumps for sustainable cooling and heating in buildings
Source: https://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/2565809
Open-access via OSTI; Shamim et al., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Energy vol. 323, 2025.
Key findings
- MOFs target the core weakness of thermally-driven adsorption heat pumps (low COP) via high adsorption capacity plus natural refrigerants at low pressure.
- Candidate MOFs surveyed: aluminum fumarate, MIL-101(Cr) (plus GO/CaCl2 composites), CPO-27(Ni), UiO-66(Zr), MOF-801, MOF-303, ZIF-8.
- Four named commercialization barriers: (1) water/hydrothermal stability over many cycles, (2) scalable lab-to-commercial synthesis, (3) coating/integration onto heat-exchanger surfaces, (4) cost plus need for green synthesis.
- National-lab (DOE-adjacent) authorship signals continued US research interest.
- Conclusion: MOFs remain pre-commercial for adsorption heat pumps as of 2025.