It is a great pleasure for us to welcome you to the
4^th International School on Porous Materials (MOFschool2025)

Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) are advanced porous materials deriving from the self-assembly of (organic/inorganic and organic/organic) building units. In the past twenty years, the vast library of building units and synthetic conditions has enabled the preparation and consequent investigation of a huge number of MOFs and COFs showing fascinating functional properties – from adsorption to separation, heterogeneous catalysis, sensing, and drug delivery, to list a few – and outperforming, in many aspects, classical porous materials.

In a number of occasions, the functional properties and potential applications of MOFs and COFs have prompted their appearance on the market or their testing in technologically relevant devices. Despite this, the field is advancing at a very fast pace and there still exists a large playground for isolating novel materials and/or improving the properties of existing ones.

MOFschool2025 aims to introduce the attendees into this vast and interdisciplinary research field: starting from MOFs and COFs advanced synthetic methods, the School will propose representative examples of up-to-date characterization techniques and cutting-edge applications, up to implementation into devices. To the aim, MOFschool2025 lecturers’ panel can count on internationally recognized scientists, including Silvia Bordiga, Elisa Borfecchia, Stefano Canossa, Valentina Colombo, Shuhei Furukawa, Felipe Gándara, Sebastian Henke, Stefan Kaskel, Jorge A.R. Navarro, Davide M. Proserpio, Wendy Queen, Jin-Chong Tan, Omar M. Yaghi, and others to be announced.

After the success of the International School on Porous Materials in its past editions, MOFschool2025 will be organized as an in-person and remote mixed event.

MOFschool2025, jointly organized by the Universities of Insubria, Milano La Statale and Granada, has made a great effort to encourage the participation of young, enthusiastic scientists from all over the world, for which we are gratefully indebted to our generous funders.

We are looking forward to welcoming you, possibly to Villa del Grumello
and we are convinced you will spend a very fruitful time during the School!

Sincerely yours,

Valentina Colombo, Simona Galli and Jorge A.R. Navarro (School Directors)

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