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Crystal engineering in two dimensions

Surface attraction

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A new route to layer-by-layer assembly of metal–organic framework thin films affords highly ordered and controllable surfaces with potential in chemical sensing and catalyst applications.

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Figure 2: Schematic of the structure of thin films when composed of layers with disordered in-plane orientations (a) as compared with highly ordered films containing pillared pyridine molecules (b).

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  1. Mark A. Green is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, and the NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA. mark.green@nist.gov,

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