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Publications

Selected Publications

A chronological record of peer-reviewed publications from the group, spanning porous materials, advanced structural characterization, catalysis and environmental applications.

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  1. 2026

    • Atomically Precise Engineering of Synergistic Binding Sites in a Zirconium Metal–Organic Framework for the Capture of Perfluorooctanoic Acid

      Marugán-Benito, S., Vlachos, M., Ahrens, L., Roselló-González, M., Marini, C., Prat Albert, J., Mavrandonakis, A., Loukopoulos, E., Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      Journal of the American Chemical Society 2026, 148, 19672–19683.

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    • Ultrafast Capture of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Water by Mesoporous Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks

      Marugán-Benito, S., Gil-San-Millan, R., Alarcón del Río, M., Ahrens, L., Loukopoulos, E., Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      ACS Materials Letters 2026, 8, 1717–1723.

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    • Enhanced CO2 affinity in a metal–organic framework through green incorporation of a dual-functional amino acid

      Loukopoulos, E.*, Barragán-Soto, S., Marugán-Benito, S., Borrego-Marin, E., Navarro, J. A. R., Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      Nanoscale 2026, 18, 706–711.

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    • Structural features and antibacterial activity of Ni(ii) thiosemicarbazones in a zirconium metal-organic framework composite

      Loukopoulos, E., Fabra, D., Melones-Herrero, J., Matesanz, A. I., Viciana, C., Platero-Prats, A. E.*, Sánchez-Pérez, I., Quiroga, A. G.

      Dalton Transactions 2026, 55, 5130–5138.

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    • Coordination-Enabled Antibiotic Capture and Optical Sensing in Water with a Dual-Function Mesoporous Zirconium Metal-Organic Framework

      Roselló-González, M., Loukopoulos, E., Marini, C., Gil-San-Millan, R., Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      ChemRxiv 2026, Preprint.

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    • Engineering Dinuclear Iron Sites in Fluorinated Mesoporous Zirconium Metal-Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Photo-Fenton Catalysis

      Gil-San-Millan, R., Palenzuela-Rebella, S., Gomez-Mendoza, M., Mavrandonakis, A., Marini, C., Barawi, M., de la Peña O’Shea, V. A., Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      ChemRxiv 2026, Preprint.

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  2. 2025

    • Deciphering interfacial interactions in a dual-functional MOF@COF composite for organic pollutant removal from water

      del Castillo-Velilla, I., Castillo-Blas, C., Bennett, T. D., Cuadrado-Benavent, B., Zamora, F.*, Montoro, C.*, Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2025.

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    • Designing covalent organic frameworks for organic catalysis: bridging reticular and molecular chemistry

      Shirani, M. A., Afshari, M., Romero-Muñiz, I.*, Platero-Prats, A. E., Dinari, M.*, Zamora, F.*

      Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2025, 13, 19172–19192.

  3. 2024

    • Chemically Tailored Metal-Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Capture of Short- and Long-Chain Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Water

      Loukopoulos, E.*, Marugán-Benito, S., Raptis, D., Tylianakis, E., Froudakis, G. E., Mavrandonakis, A.*, Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      Advanced Functional Materials 2024, 2409932.

    • Copper single-site engineering in MOF-808 membranes for improved water treatment

      del Castillo-Velilla, I., Romero-Muñiz, I., Marini, C., Montoro, C.*, Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      Nanoscale 2024, 16, 6627–6635.

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    • Enhanced Organocatalytic Processes through an Engineered Acid-Base Site Bifunctional Pore in a Zirconium Metal-Organic Framework

      Moreno, J. M., Gil-San-Millan, R., Mas-Balleste, R., Alemán, J.*, Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      ChemCatChem 2024, 16, e202400676.

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    • Exploring porous structures without crystals: advancements with pair distribution function in metal-and covalent organic frameworks

      Romero-Muñiz, I., Loukopoulos, E., Xiong, Y., Zamora, F., Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      Chemical Society Reviews 2024, 53, 11772–11803.

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    • How Reproducible is the Synthesis of Zr–Porphyrin Metal–Organic Frameworks? An Interlaboratory Study

      Boström, H. L. B. et al., Platero-Prats, A. E. et al.

      Advanced Materials 2024, 2304832.

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  4. 2023

    • Synergistic binding sites in a metal-organic framework for the optical sensing of nitrogen dioxide

      Castillo-Velilla, I., Sousaraei, A., Romero-Muñiz, I., Castillo-Blas, C., Méndez, A. S. J., Oropeza, F. E., de la Peña O’Shea, V. A., Cabanillas-González, J., Mavrandonakis, A.*, Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      Nature Communications 2023, 14, 2506.

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  5. 2022

    • Multicomponent, Functionalized HKUST-1 Analogues Assembled via Reticulation of Prefabricated Metal–Organic Polyhedral Cavities

      Khobotov-Bakishev, A. et al., Platero-Prats, A. E. et al.

      Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 15745–15753.

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    • Revisiting Vibrational Spectroscopy to Tackle the Chemistry of Zr6O8 Metal-Organic Framework Nodes

      Romero-Muñiz, I., Romero-Muñiz, C., del Castillo-Velilla, I., Marini, C., Calero, S., Zamora, F., Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022, 14, 27040–27047.

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    • Ultrasmall Copper Nanoclusters in Zirconium Metal-Organic Frameworks for the Photoreduction of CO2

      Dai, S., Kajiwara, T., Ikeda, M., Romero-Muñiz, I., Patriarche, G., Platero-Prats, A. E., Vimont, A., Daturi, A., Tissot, A., Xu, Q., Serre, C.

      Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2022, 61, e202211848.

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  6. 2021

    • Layered Copper-Metallated Covalent Organic Frameworks for Huisgen Reactions

      Romero-Muñiz, I., Albacete, A., Platero-Prats, A. E.*, Zamora, F.

      ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, 13, 54106–54112.

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    • The Molecular Path Approaching the Active Site in Catalytic Metal–Organic Frameworks

      Platero-Prats, A. E., Mavrandonakis, A., Liu, J., Chen, Z., Chen, Z., Li, Z., Yakovenko, A. A., Gallington, L. C., Hupp, J. T., Farha, O. K., Cramer, C. J., Chapman, K. W.

      Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021, 143, 20090–20094.

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  7. 2020

    • Applications of pair distribution function analyses to the emerging field of non-ideal metal–organic framework materials

      Castillo-Blas, C., Moreno, J. M., Romero-Muñiz, I., Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      Nanoscale 2020, 12, 15577–15587.

    • Unravelling the local structure of catalytic Fe-oxo clusters stabilized on the MOF-808 metal organic-framework

      Castillo-Blas, C., Romero-Muñiz, I., Mavrandonakis, A., Simonelli, L., Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      Chemical Communications 2020, 56, 15615–15618.

    • Unveiling the Local Structure of Palladium Loaded into Imine-Linked Layered Covalent Organic Frameworks for Cross-Coupling Catalysis

      Romero-Muñiz, I., Mavrandonakis, A., Albacete, P., Vega, A., Briois, V., Zamora, F., Platero-Prats, A. E.*

      Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 59, 13013–13020.

  8. 2019

    • Chemical sensing of water contaminants by a colloid of a fluorescent imine-linked covalent organic framework

      Albacete, P., López-Moreno, A., Mena-Hernando, S., Platero-Prats, A. E., Pérez, E. M., Zamora, F.

      Chemical Communications 2019, 55, 10, 1382-1385.

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    • Magnesium Exchanged Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks with Improved Detoxification Properties of Nerve Agents

      Gil-San-Millan, R., López-Maya, E., Platero-Prats, A. E., Torres-Pérez, V., Delgado, P., Augustyniak, A. W., Kim, M. K., Lee, H. W., Ryu, S. G., Navarro, J. A. R.

      Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141, 30, 11801-11805.

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    • Vapor-Phase Fabrication and Condensed-Phase Application of a MOF-Node-Supported Iron Thiolate Photocatalyst for Nitrate Conversion to Ammonium

      Choi, H., Peters, A. W., Noh, H., Gallington, L. C., Platero-Prats, A. E., DeStefano, M. R., Rimoldi, M., Goswami, S., Chapman, K. W., Farha, O. K., Hupp, J. T.

      ACS Applied Energy Materials 2019, 2, 12, 8695-8700.

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  9. 2018

    • Adsorptive removal of Sb(V) from water using a mesoporous Zr-based metal–organic framework

      Rangwani, S., Howarth, A. J., DeStefano, M. R., Malliakas, C. D., Platero-Prats, A. E., Chapman, K. W., Farha, O. K.

      Polyhedron 2018, 151, 338-343.

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    • Application and Limitations of Nanocasting in Metal–Organic Frameworks

      Malonzo, C. D., Wang, Z., Duan, J., Zhao, W., Webber, T. E., Li, Z., Kim, I. S., Kumar, A., Bhan, A., Platero-Prats, A. E., Chapman, K. W., Farha, O. K., Hupp, J. T., Martinson, A. B. F., Penn, R. L., Stein, A.

      Inorganic Chemistry 2018, 57, 5, 2782-2790.

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    • Extending the Compositional Range of Nanocasting in the Oxozirconium Cluster-Based Metal–Organic Framework NU-1000—A Comparative Structural Analysis

      Zhao, W., Wang, Z., Malonzo, C. D., Webber, T. E., Platero-Prats, A. E., Sotomayor, F., Vermeulen, N. A., Wang, T. C., Hupp, J. T., Farha, O. K., Penn, R. L., Chapman, K. W., Thommes, M., Stein, A.

      Chemistry of Materials 2018, 30, 4, 1301-1315.

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    • Inorganic “Conductive Glass” Approach to Rendering Mesoporous Metal–Organic Frameworks Electronically Conductive and Chemically Responsive

      Kung, C.-W., Platero-Prats, A. E., Drout, R. J., Kang, J., Wang, T. C., Audu, C. O., Hersam, M. C., Chapman, K. W., Farha, O. K., Hupp, J. T.

      ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018, 10, 36, 30532-30540.

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    • Layer-Stacking-Driven Fluorescence in a Two-Dimensional Imine-Linked Covalent Organic Framework

      Albacete, P., Martínez, J. I., Li, X., López-Moreno, A., Mena-Hernando, S., Platero-Prats, A. E., Montoro, C., Loh, K. P., Pérez, E. M., Zamora, F.

      Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018, 140, 40, 12922-12929.

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    • Site-Directed Synthesis of Cobalt Oxide Clusters in a Metal–Organic Framework

      Peters, A. W., Otake, K., Platero-Prats, A. E., Li, Z., DeStefano, M. R., Chapman, K. W., Farha, O. K., Hupp, J. T.

      ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018, 10, 17, 15073-15078.

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    • Thermally induced migration of a polyoxometalate within a metal–organic framework and its catalytic effects

      Buru, C. T., Platero-Prats, A. E., Chica, D. G., Kanatzidis, M. G., Chapman, K. W., Farha, O. K.

      Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2018, 6, 17, 7389-7394.

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    • Well-Defined Rhodium–Gallium Catalytic Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework: Promoter-Controlled Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation to E-Alkenes

      Desai, S. P., Ye, J., Zheng, J., Ferrandon, M. S., Webber, T. E., Platero-Prats, A. E., Duan, J., Garcia-Holley, P., Camaioni, D. M., Chapman, K. W., Delferro, M., Farha, O. K., Fulton, J. L., Gagliardi, L., Lercher, J. A., Penn, R. L., Stein, A., Lu, C. C.

      Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018, 140, 45, 15309-15318.

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