Manufacturing Macroporous Monoliths of Microporous Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Remo N. Widmer § , Giulio. I. Lampronti § , Benjamin Kunz † , Corsin Battaglia † , Jennifer H. Shepherd ‡ , Simon A. T. Redfern § *, Thomas D. Bennett ‡ § Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom † Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Ueberlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland ‡ Department of Materials Sciences & Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB30FS, United Kingdom * E-mail: satr@cam.ac.uk Metal-organic frameworks • zeolitic imidazolate frameworks • porosity • sintering • monoliths ABSTRACT: We report the first use of a pressure-assisted sintering technique on metal-organic framework (MOF) powders allowing for fast production of crystalline macro-porous monoliths. Mechanical and micro-structural characterization of the monoliths is presented. The interconnected macro-porosity of the compacts can be adjusted providing an immense interface