MOFapps AS

MOFapps were founded in 2013 on the assumption that metal organic frame works are a class of materials, so powerful in their capacity and so versatile in their application that it is a pitty that to date there was practically no industrial application after more than 10 years of research. Materials were apparently up to this point not stable enough, not mechanically robust, too expensive and production methods for larger quantities were environmentally unfriendly.

At MOFapps we believe that MOFs can change the world: our individual mobility, the ways we deliver medication, treat wounds, store toxic gas or cool computer servers.

What it takes to make this happen is to bring MOF science experts together and create and environment which allows industry partners to define their technical applications. It requires chemical engineering to design MOFs and production processes robust enough for everyday life and the spirit of entrepreneurship to make it all happen.

Today we are proud to partner with institutes and companies who offer environmentally friendly production methods, we have licenses to market and produce a full range of high performance MOFs (UiO-66 and family) as well as very positive feedback from industrial feasibility tests.

Our team of experienced experts will help you to define the scope of your project and engineer the proper solution for your industrial application.

Our Team

Dr. Bernd Wiskemann
Director

Founding partner of Arkwright Group an international management consulting firm, 20 years of strategy consulting and corporate finance experience. Bernd worked previously as manager for Bain & Company in Munich. He is an Economist from the Univ. of Freiburg and is a Doctor of Law, Max Planck Institute. Bernd has initiated and participated in several company start ups.

Nik Seidenader
Director

After 4 years as consultant at Bain & Co with international assignments in industry and M&A Nik headed Seidenader Maschinenbau GmbH a world leader of inspection technology for the pharmaceutical industry for over 20 years. He sold the company to Körber AG where he still acts as a senior consultant. Nik is an early investor and consultant in serveral technology start ups and lectures at serval German universities on entrepreneurship and marketing.

Dr. David Farrusseng
Scientific consultant

David received his PhD (cum laude) in Material Science at the European Institute of Membranes (IEM) in Montpellier in 1999. He joined as post-doc the group of Prof. F. Schüth at the MPI . In 2001, he was appointed CNRS researcher at IRCELYON. He is currently CNRS Research Director and group leader at Lyon University/CNRS. His research activities are focused on the design of Materials for original catalytic & separation processes. He got the famous IACS Award in 2016 for his contribution in the filed of porous materials and MOF in paticular.  He is the editor of a book (–> Book review MOFs) , authors of more than 160 international publications and more than 10 patents.

Prof. Francis Meunier
Chief Technology Officer

Prof. Francis Meunier joins MOFapps as Chief Technical Officer. Francis has held various positions at CNRS, France and has retired after more then 10 years as professor at CNAM in Paris. He is an expert in adsorption and heat pump technology and author of  many publications in this area. Prof. Meunier is a honorary director of the French Institute of Industrial Chilling ( directeur honoraire de l’Institut français du froid industriel (IFFI) ).

Scientific advisory board

Norbert Stock

Dr. Norbert Stock is a professor and director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Kiel, Germany. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bayreuth and spent 15 months as a post doc at the University of Versailles and the University of California. In 2000, he became a part of a professor group at the University of Munich where he finished his habilitation in 2004. His research interest lies within the field of inorganic-organic hybrid compounds. He has been involved in the development and application of high-throughput methods for reactions under solvothermal conditions. Thus, he is interested in the discovery of new hybrid compounds, understanding their formation, and setting up synthesis-structure relationships.

Cécile Vallière

Cécile received her PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1997 at Lorraine University. She was appointed Lecturer in 1998 at the IUT of Nancy in Chemical Engineering Department. Since, 2007 she is professor in the same department. Her research at the Engineering Laboratory in Nancy is focused on design and optimization of adsorption processes for gas and liquid purification and separation. She is assistant director of the Laboratory and president of the French Adsorption Society. She is author of 30 international publications on gas separation and purification.

Susumi Kitagawa

was awarded the Nobel price for Chemistry in 2025 for his fundamental work on MOFs

Susumu Kitagawa received his Ph. D. at Kyoto University in 1979. He became Assistant Professor (1979), Lecturer (1983), and Associate Professor (1988) at Kinki University. He was promoted to Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1992, and moved to Kyoto University as Professor of Functional Chemistry in 1998. He had been a visiting Scientist in F. A. Cotton Laboratory, Texas A & M University, during the period of 1986-1987, and an exchange professor in City University of New York in 1996. He is now Director of Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Kyoto University launched by Japanese Government (2007). His main research fields are coordination chemistry, in particular, chemistry of coordination space, and his current research interests are centered on synthesis and properties of porous coordination polymers/metal-organic frameworks. He received the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award, Japan for 2007, Humboldt Research Award, Germany for 2008, The Chemical Society of Japan Award, Japan for 2009, Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate (Chemistry) for 2010, The Medal with Purple Ribbon 2011, The RSC de Gennes Prize for 2013, The 10th Leo Esaki Prize for 2013.

Strategic advisory board

Ralph Schmidt

PhD in porous materials, CEO and production head of several bio technology companies

Arno Schönberger

PhD biology, Marketing director Europe Lifescience, Beckmann Coulter

Niels Braunschweig

CEO ADSORBUS GmbH, Specialists in adsorption cooling

https://adsorbus.com/en/adsorption-cooling/

Our Partners

MOFapps goal is to create an eco system of competent partners for all necessary steps towards industrializing MOF materials and developing applications. We believe that only a strong network will keep us up to date regarding new materials and manufacturing methods developed by top research institutes and universities as well as industrial partners helping us to define the requirements for MOFs which are durable enough for industrial and commercial applications.

Here is a list of partners we constantly work together with in order to find the right solution for your application: