Volume 12 Issue 2, February 2020

Volume 12 Issue 2

Out-of-plane conductivity in layered MOFs

Electrically conductive metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) that hold promise for applications in chemical sensing and energy storage are typically layered structures exhibiting in-plane conductivity. Now, Mircea Dincă and co-workers have prepared a series of layered lanthanide MOFs where the charge transport is primarily out-of-plane, perpendicular to the ligand-based sheets (an artistic representation of the anisotropic conductivity is shown on the cover). The conductivity of the materials can be modulated by changing the lanthanide ion which, in turn, affects the interlayer distance.

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IMAGE: Grigorii Skorupskii, MIT COVER DESIGN: Tulsi Voralia

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