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Nanoporous films

From conventional to conformal

Nature Materials volume 15, pages 255–257 (2016)Cite this article

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Thin and continuous films of porous metal–organic frameworks can now be conformally deposited on various substrates using a vapour-phase synthesis approach that departs from conventional solution-based routes.

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Figure 1: Vapour-phase MOF-CVD process.

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  1. Mark D. Allendorf and Vitalie Stavila are at the Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551-0969, USA,

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