Patent ID: 8133301

Claim:
Ultraporous organic-inorganic nanoporous hybrids in which a mesoporous material including organic groups on the surface thereof is covalently-bonded with a crystalline organic-inorganic hybrid, the composite produced by the steps of: 1) mixing an organic precursor for introducing a primary organic functional group, an inorganic precursor and a surfactant to form a mixture and then reacting the mixture to prepare a mesoporous cellular foam (MCF-R) where R is selected from a R1, a primary organic functional group or a R2, a secondary organic functional group; 2) mixing the MCF-R with a solution of a metal-organic framework (MOF) precursor and a nonporous organic-inorganic hybrid (NOIH) precursor to prepare an MCF-R-MOF composite; and 3) crystallizing the MCF-R-MOF composite.