CCUS Innovation 2.0 competition: Monolithic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for carbon capture
Summary
DESNZ has published the project documents from Immaterial Limited's CCUS Innovation 2.0 grant to develop monolithic metal-organic framework (MOF) adsorbents for post-combustion carbon capture. The work designed a demonstrator to strip CO2 from flue gas using structured MOF adsorbents instead of conventional amine solvents, which suffer from degradation, corrosion, and a high energy penalty. This is a materials R&D output, not a policy or market measure.
Why it matters
An R&D grant deliverable with no effect on electricity market structure, charges, or what can be built or connected. The only adjacent relevance is that any carbon capture process imposes a parasitic energy load on the host plant, a hidden cost of CCS that does not appear in the headline capture figures, but this document does not quantify it or change any rule.
Key facts
- •Project lead: Immaterial Limited
- •Funded under the CCUS Innovation 2.0 competition (DESNZ)
- •Technology: monolithic MOFs and MOF-coated structured adsorbents for post-combustion capture
- •Stated problem with incumbent amine technology: solvent degradation, corrosiveness, high energy penalty
- •Published 2026-05-13
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Memo
Monolithic metal organic frameworks for carbon capture Project Lead: Immaterial Limited Post-combustion carbon capture currently uses amine-based technologies that are hampered by solvent degradation, corrosiveness, and a high energy penalty. Metal-organic frameworks ( MOFs ) are a class of highly tuneable nano-porous materials with great potential in capturing carbon. However, the development of the traditional powdered form of MOFs has been limited by its high production cost and poor structural stability. This project leveraged Immaterial’s material and process design technologies to design a carbon capture demonstrator for the removal of carbon from flue gas streams, identifying the most suitable monolithic MOFs and MOF -coated structured adsorbents for carbon capture.