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Nature Materials 6, 92 - 93 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat1824

Metal–organic Frameworks: A tale of two entanglements

Omar M. Yaghi1

  1. Omar M. Yaghi is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Reticular Chemistry at California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, California, USA. e-mail: yaghi@chem.ucla.edu


Entanglement of interpenetrating metal–organic frameworks has been considered a drawback to porosity. However, the pore size of these structures can be controlled through framework dynamics to achieve selectivity and increased binding of ions and gases.

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