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Metal–organic frameworks

A thin film opening

Nature Chemistry volume 8, pages 294–296 (2016)Cite this article

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The properties of metal–organic frameworks — promising for a myriad of applications — can be commonly tuned by judicious choice of the building blocks used to prepare the material. Now, simply downsizing a rigid, non-porous MOF to a thin film has been shown to endow it with dynamic, gate-opening-type guest uptake behaviour.

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of different types of MOFs and their structural transformations upon guest uptake.

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Sumby, C. A thin film opening. Nature Chem 8, 294–296 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2481

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