HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERISATION OF MOF-5 AND SYNTHESIS OF COPPER OXIDE NANOPARTICLE INCORPORATED MOF-5 AND THEIR ANTIBACTERIAL STUDY

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.