Contract research
PROFMOF runs tailored R&D projects for companies working with MOF materials and challenging sorbent applications. Projects can combine custom synthesis, formulation, characterization, performance testing, regeneration studies, and scale-up.
PRODUCTION
MOF and sorbent synthesis and scale-up
We synthesize standard and custom MOFs, matching material quality to the application, and scale batches from screening quantities to kilo-scale production.
Our team has decades of combined experience in MOF and zeolite materials synthesis.
We synthesize any MOF, from mg to kg scale, based on custom methods and published procedures, as well as post-synthetic modifications. Our core strengths are MOF synthesis (we have made thousands of different MOFs) and performance testing under harsh, process realistic conditions. For any MOF, the same nominal structure can behave differently depending on defect density, crystallinity, activation, guest molecules, and surface chemistry. We can optimize for yield, purity, or any performance-relevant quality.
TESTING
Performance testing
ProfMOF precisely quantifies the performance of MOFs and other adsorbents under process-realistic conditions.
To bridge the gap between material synthesis and practical deployment, testing simulates the chemical and process environments of the client’s facility. The result is an accelerated, data-driven forecast of how adsorbents are likely to perform over months or years of industrial operation. Adsorption capacity and selectivity are measured using realistic gas compositions and cycling conditions, enabling rapid comparison of multiple candidates and bed compositions.
With flexible lab-scale testing rigs, we can recreate almost any industrial chemical process. We’ll characterize failure modes and investigate mechanistic pathways.
Testing can be performed across a wide range of gas compositions, operating conditions, and process-relevant challenges, including corrosive components where appropriate. Multi-cycle testing is used to assess stability, working capacity, and regeneration behavior. Dry regeneration and steam regeneration options are available to replicate your own process conditions in our lab.
PROJECTS
Example Projects
Our typical projects fall into three categories: Optimizing a sorbent polisher in a complex gas stream, characterizing MOFs and other products for water harvesting or CO2-capture, and synthesis screening and performance mapping of MOF structures.
Optimization of a sorbent polisher in a complex gas stream.
Every process and stream has its challenging contaminants that need to be removed. At PROFMOF, we work with industrial R&D teams to identify sorbent compositions and highly selective MOFs that bring those contaminants down below specified levels.
Goal
Identification of a sorbent/polisher composition for a specific, challenging impurity removal.
Work
Optimize regeneration conditions and test sorbent performance over many sorption/regeneration cycles.
Breakthrough at lab scale.
Materials screening.
Output
Report containing:
- Recommended bed composition and architecture.
- Quantitative performance of the polisher bed under the operating window.
- Robustness testing of the operating window.
- Recommended regeneration conditions.
CO2 capture/water harvesting
MOFs are rapidly emerging as selective CO2 capture and water harvesting materials with low-energy regeneration. PROFMOF identifies the correct MOF for the specific operational window.
Goal
Identify materials that maintain working capacity across humidity and repeated cycling.
Work
Synthesis of candidate set. Measurement of CO2 and H2O isotherms. Breakthrough runs using process-realistic mixed-gas feeds. Multicycle TGA and breakthrough-runs.
Output
Recommended candidate(s), based on performance, production feasibility and operating cost. A set of recommended next experiments for validation.
Data generation for chemical AI
AI-assisted materials discovery and property prediction is a rapidly growing field, accelerating the development of new functional materials. We generate high-quality data on MOF materials to link chemical structures to rigorously measured properties, to train and validate chemical computational tools.
Goal
Provide high-quality data sets (structural, physical, performance) for training of chemical AI.
Work
Synthesis of a large set of MOF materials verification of structure and purity, including structure solution for new phases. Characterization according to scope, e.g. N2/CO2/H2O isotherms.
Output
Complete raw data sets and verified MOF structures.
Partnership
Why teams choose PROFMOF as their technical partner
We reduce development risk and accelerate your path to market. Industry-grade quality assurance means your material performs in real use
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Faster development cycles
Cycles under real process conditions for real-world stability data.
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Faster development cycles
MOFs made, characterized and tested.
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Proven quality standards
Data sets collected, and counting.
Start your project
Contact our technical team to discuss your project requirements