8th International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Open Framework Compounds

Exhibitors & Sponsors

Silver sponsors

ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy providers and chemical manufacturers, develops and applies next-generation technologies to help safely and responsibly meet the world’s growing needs for energy and high-quality chemical products.

Worldwide, ExxonMobil markets fuels, lubricants and chemicals under four brands: Esso, Exxon, Mobil and ExxonMobil.

For more information, please visit www.corporate.exxonmobil.com

 

Microtrac MRB

Microtrac MRB’s product portfolio for particle characterization is unparalleled worldwide. It includes solutions for particle size and shape analysis but also for gas sorption, porosimetry and density measurement. The BELCAT system performs highly automated chemisorption and TPX experiments to characterize the chemically active parts of the surface area. The BELSORP series is utilized to carry out physisorption measurements. Starting with standard BET measurements up to adsorption experiments with corrosive vapors and gases.

For more information, please visit https://www.verder-scientific.com

novoMOF

novoMOF is a technology company in the field of advanced materials with a focus on production and commercialization of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). These highly-porous adsorbents offer competitive solutions to global problems such as water scarcity, food waste, and carbon capture. We are the strategic development partner for innovative market-leaders in the commercialization of MOF-based applications.

For more information, please visit www.novomof.com

NuMat

NuMat is an integrated solutions provider to customers in the semiconductor, industrial and life-science sectors - delivering engineered solutions enabled by chemistry innovation. We do this using an integrated commercialization platform: pairing data engineering and computational discovery capabilities with application development and manufacturing expertise. We bring significant industrial expertise, assets, and scale in the field of Metal-Organic Frameworks, with over 60 individuals specialized in this field of chemistry. We have a track-record of successful product commercialization in demanding industries where performance, quality and supply-chain resilience are key. Based in the U.S., NuMat has a global footprint in Europe and APAC, capable of serving customers in all key geographies. 

For more information, please visit www.numat.com.

Rigaku

Since its founding in 1951, Rigaku has been at the forefront of analytical and industrial instrumentation technology. With hundreds of significant innovations, the Rigaku Group of Companies is now a world leader in the field of X-ray and its complementary technologies.

For more information, please visit www.rigaku.com

 

TA Instruments

TA Instruments is the world leader in manufacturing industry-leading systems for thermal analysis, rheology, microcalorimetry and mechanical analysis. We offer innovative and reliable instruments that help scientists in top laboratories test the physical properties of their materials. Our instruments contribute to leading discoveries in medicine, materials science, electronics, and other areas of science devoted to improving our world.

For more information, please visit https://www.tainstruments.com

Bronze sponsors

Atomis

Atomis Inc. is a Japanese start-up that delivers cutting-edge R&D services for the optimization of MOFs for customized gas storage and separation applications. It has significant expertise in materials scale-up, and offers low-cost manufacturing solutions based on solid-state methods that afford high-quality materials with fewer by-products. It is currently developing a new gas storage tank (CubiTan®) that is smaller and lighter than a conventional gas cylinder, and is equipped with IoT features that enable more efficient gas distribution and inventory management.

For more information, please visit  https://www.atomis.co.jp/en/

BASF

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 111,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €78.6 billion in 2021. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S.

For more information, please visit www.basf.com

Showa Denko

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) was founded in 1939. Ranked as one of Japan’s leading chemical companies, SDK operates in five segments: semiconductor and electronic materials, mobility, innovation enabling materials, and chemicals. In 2020, Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd. (former Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.) joined the Group. We are committed to providing new functions and value as an integrated company, in this way we will contribute the realization of a sustainable society.

For more information, please visit https://www.sdk.co.jp/english/

SyncMOF

SyncMOF works together with its clients to put MOFs to practical use.

Our service includes:
• Synthesis of MOFs for gas storage and separation at ton order, and we provide them in a shaped form.
• Development of experimental devices such as adsorption device (4-478 K), spectrometers to characterize MOFs under gaseous conditions, screening device for adsorption properties, adsorption device for mixed gas and nonequilibrium conditions, and analysis software.

We have also provided multiple companies with gas separation devices equipped with MOFs (e.g., DAC device).

For more information, please visit https://syncmof.com/en/

TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies is a broad energy company that produces and markets fuels, natural gas and electricity. Our 100,000 employees are committed to better energy that is more affordable, more reliable, cleaner and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in more than 130 countries, our ambition is to become the responsible energy major.

For more information, please visit www.totalenergies.com

 

Exhibitors

3P Instruments

For more than 30 years, 3P Instruments has been offering measurement equipment, contract analysis and method development for comprehensive characterization of dispersions, particles, powders, and porous solids. This includes the determination of BET surface area and pore size distribution, breakthrough sorption experiments (adsorption of gas mixtures), porosity, chemisorption and temperature-programmed reactions (TPD, TPR/O), water vapor sorption, and many more.

For more information, please visit www.3p-instruments.com

Anton Paar

Anton Paar develops, produces, distributes, and provides application know-how, support and service for analytical instruments used in research, development, and quality control for laboratory and process applications worldwide.

Anton Paar has continuously found new ways to merge high-precision engineering with scientific curiosity. Aside of being the world market leader in the field of density, concentration measurement and rheology, with more than 3,400 employees in more than 110 countries, Anton Paar offers solutions for porous materials like XRD and sorption analyzers.

For more information, please visit  https://www.anton-paar.com

attocube systems AG

attocube's business sector 'Nanoscale Analytics' develops and produces innovative solutions for nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy. The neaSCOPE system is an ultra-stable, easy-to-use instrument for tip-enhanced optical measurements with remarkable scientific impact. Our technology overcomes the limitations of conventional instruments and enables a spatial resolution of just a few nanometers. Customers from academia and industry rely on attocube's groundbreaking 'Nanoscale Analytics' technology
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For more information, please visit www.attocube.com

Berghof Products + Instruments

Berghof offers comprehensive expertise in the manufacturing of high- and low-pressure reactors. Important common features are the simple, tool-free closing and opening as well as the specially developed PTFE lining, which prevents damage to the reactors by aggressive media. Your benefits: You profit from easy handling and reduced wear. All Berghof reactors offer maximum flexibility and functionality while meeting the highest safety standards. Thanks to our modular system, you can configure your reactor to suit your specific needs.

For more information, please visit https://www.berghof-instruments.com/en/

Bruker AXS

Bruker is enabling scientists to make breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve the quality of human life. Today, worldwide more than 6,900 employees are working on this permanent challenge at over 90 locations on all continents. In close collaboration with our users, Bruker drives innovation, improved productivity, and customer success. We serve a wide range of customers in research, development and quality control in academia, governmental institutions, and industry. Bruker solutions emphasize user-friendly software, modularity, and flexibility. Professional training and worldwide service are in place to support our customers.

For more information, please visit www.bruker.com.

Fraunhofer Institute IWS

Materials and Lasers – Competence with a System

Fraunhofer IWS develops complex system solutions in materials and laser technology. We define ourselves as idea drivers developing customized solutions based on laser applications, functionalized surfaces and material and process innovations – from easy-to-integrate custom solutions to cost-efficient solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises to industry-ready one-stop solutions. Our research focuses on aerospace, energy and environmental technology, automotive, medical and mechanical engineering, toolmaking, electrical engineering and microelectronics, and photonics and optics sectors. In our five future and innovation fields of battery technology, hydrogen technology, surface functionalization, photonic production systems and additive manufacturing, we are already creating the basis today for the technological answers of tomorrow.

For more information, please visit https://www.iws.fraunhofer.de/en

Gatan

Gatan, Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of instrumentation and software used to enhance and extend the operation and performance of electron microscopes. Gatan products, which are fully compatible with nearly all electron microscope models, cover the entire range of the research process—from specimen preparation and manipulation to imaging and analysis. The Gatan brand name is recognized and respected throughout the worldwide scientific community and has been synonymous with high quality products and leading technology for more than 50 years. Gatan is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, U.S.A.

For more information, please visit www.gatan.com.

Hiden Isochema

Hiden Isochema offer high accuracy sorption instruments designed for research-scale sample sizes, and our instruments are successfully used by many high profile MOF researchers.

Our IGA and XEMIS gravimetric sorption analyzers record full equilibrium isotherm and kinetic data under a wide range of conditions. The new IGA-003-MC allows direct determination of binary gas sorption isotherms.

Our ABR is a fully automated breakthrough analyzer with integrated mass spectrometer. We also supply dedicated vapor sorption analyzers and high pressure manometric gas sorption analyzers.

For more information, please visit www.hidenisochema.com

Malvern Panalytical

We draw on the power of our analytical instruments and services to make the invisible visible and the impossible possible. We unleash the power of very small things to make big things happen. Our analytical systems and services help our customers to create a better world. Through chemical, physical and structural analysis of materials, they improve everything from the energies that power us and the materials we build, to the medicines that cure us and the foods we enjoy.

We are Malvern Panalytical. We’re BIG on small.™ 

For more information, please visit https://www.malvernpanalytical.com/en/

Micromeritics

Micromeritics Instrument Corporation (Georgia, USA) is a global provider of advanced solutions for material characterization with market-leading instrumentation and application expertise in six core areas:  density; surface area and porosity; particle size; powder characterization; catalyst characterization and process development as well as net-zero technologies. Contract testing is offered via the Particle Testing Authority located in Norcross (USA), Munich (Germany) and Shanghai (China).

For more information, please visit micromeritics.com

 

 

Netzsch

NETZSCH Technologie is a world leader in the field of thermal characterization of almost all materials. We offer complete solutions for thermal analysis, calorimetry, determination of thermophysical properties, rheology and fire testing. 

Based on more than 60 years of application experience, a wide range of state-of-the-art products and comprehensive services, we develop solutions and instrument configurations that will not only meet your every requirement but also exceed your every expectation.

For more information, please visit http://www.netzsch.com/ta

Royal Society of Chemistry

We are here to give every mind in the chemical sciences the information and tools to try something new – to help everyone feel confident enough to challenge the accepted and take important ideas further.

Because with the right information and an enquiring mind, the potential for new discovery increases, and researchers get a step closer to answering fundamental questions.

For more information, please visit www.rsc.org.

Sikémia

SIKÉMIA, your experienced French partner for the design, synthesis and scale-up of linkers for MOF production and material coatings. To carry out your project, SIKEMIA's team will support you from the early stages by offering a wide range of MOFs linkers at laboratory scale and by striving to find the best synthetic approach for any custom linkers. For more advanced projects, our R&D team will assist you in scaling up your target MOF by producing the corresponding organic linker at kilogram scale.

For more information, please visit https://www.sikemia.com/

 

STREM

Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Ascensus Specialties LLC is the global leader in borohydride, borane and specialty alcoholate reagents, CVD/ALD precursors, and high-purity APIs and cGMP materials. Ascensus’ chemistries improve the way its clients create their products by making what they do easier, more efficient, safer and more selective. The Company’s Strem Catalog provides researchers with high-purity, research-grade materials to drive innovation. From world-class production plants in Elma, WA, Evans City, PA, and Newburyport, MA, Ascensus has a global reach that ensures that clients can consistently manufacture their products to the highest standards.

For more information, please visit https://www.ascensusspecialties.com/ and for Strem Catalog, please visit https://www.strem.com/

Surface Measurement Systems

Surface Measurement Systems is the world‘s leading developer of innovative experimental techniques and instrumentations for physico-chemical characterisation of complex solids. Inventing the Dynamic Vapor Sorption (DVS) technique, and developing the world‘s most advanced Inverse Gas Chromatography (iGC) instrument, we provide unparalleled scientific expertise & technical support to customers around the world.

For more information, please visit www.surfacemeasurementsystems.com

Sponsor of the Welcome Reception

Mosaic Materials

Mosaic is a leader in Direct Air Capture (DAC) of Carbon Dioxide.

Mosaic is building low-cost, modularized systems to pull CO2 from ambient air or flue-gas.

Mosaic has developed the highest-capacity sorbent material for capturing Carbon Dioxide. Higher capacity means lower airflow and energy requirements, resulting in dramatically lower cost CO2 Capture.

•Mosaic has developed a material with 4x more capacity for capturing CO2 than competitors
•Uses a proprietary, Metal Organic Framework (MOF), including 7 patents.
•MOF components are ubiquitous and inexpensive.
•Mosaic’s dramatically more efficient materials have put it on a path to being the lowest cost Direct Air Capture CO2 system.
•Acquired by Baker Hughes in 2022 to fully commercialize its DAC system
For more information, please visit www.MosaicMaterials.com

Sponsors of an Early Career Award

CrystEngComm

https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/about-journals/crystengcomm/

Journal of the American Chemical Society

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Sponsors of a Plenary / Keynote Lecture

CommsChem

Communications Chemistry is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the chemical sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances bringing new chemical insight to a specialized area of research. We also aim to provide a community forum for issues of importance to all chemists, regardless of sub-discipline.

For more information, please visit https://www.nature.com/commschem/

Framergy

framergy Inc., the world’s first Metal Organic Framework company, controls the composition of matter patent rights over Iron and Titanium MOFs as they proliferate into gas separations and other applications. Having been the first start up to scale the materials into ton scale in partnership with a Fortune 500 company, framergy provides high quality, industrially stable MOFs to its clients for pilot and end-sales use. In 2022 the Company launched AYRSORBTM MOF/X, revolutionizing green house gas control.

For more information, please visit http://www.framergy.com/

PROTO Manufacturing

Proto is an x-ray diffraction (XRD) manufacturer focused on driving scientific advancement. With our expert team and highly configurable systems, you are sure to find the ideal platform for your application. Our product offerings include multipurpose powder XRD systems, high-resolution diffractometers, custom systems, and much more. Proto is committed to delivering not only a quality product, but world-class service and support that you can count on long after the initial sale

For more information, please visit.https://www.protoxrd.com/

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