Abstract:
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs), especially MOF-5, are believed to be a promising class of
new porous materials that has the ability of absorbing and holding particles within its pores
which make them available for several applications such as gas adsorption, catalytic
application, sensing applications etc. In this work, MOF-5 was synthesized by hydrothermal
method and characterized using FT-IR, XRD and SEM analyses. Powder diffraction methods
show that MOF-5 has crystallite size of about 38.17nm. The synthesized MOF-5 shows good
crystallinity and porous structure hence can be used for many applications. Also, copper oxide
nanoparticles are synthesized and incorporated into the MOF-5 to form CuO@MOF-5 and
comparative antibacterial study between MOF-5 and copper oxide incorporated MOF-5 was
conducted. CuO@MOF-5 showed better antibacterial property than MOF-5 against gram-
positive bacteria and almost same antibacterial activity against gram-negative bacteria.
