Nano- or submicrometer Sized MOFs and Their Superstructures

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NSS_MOF_1

Due to the crucial requirement for practical applications, such as catalysis, porous membranes, biomedical imaging, biosensing, and drug delivery etc, scaling down the size of MOFs into nano- or micro-regime is becoming a new rapidly developing research area. Through solvothermal approaches, we have successfully obtained highly monodisperse nano or submicron-scaled MOFs and their superstructures (superlattice, colloidosomes etc.), whereby the size and morphology were systematically controlled by fine tuning the experimental conditions.

NSS_MOF_2

Our group carried out an investigation on shape-controlled growth of InIII- and GaIII-based square-octahedral metal-organic frameworks (soc-MOFs). In particular, controllable crystal morphological evolution from simple cubes to complex octadecahedra has been achieved, and resultant highly uniform crystal building blocks promise new research opportunities for preparation of self-assembled MOF materials and related applications.

NSS_MOF_3

Bottom-up fabrication of complex 3D hollow superstructures from nonspherical building blocks (BBs) poses a significant challenge for scientists in materials chemistry and physics. Scientists from the FMD3 group described for the first time a one-step emulsion-based technique that permits the assembly of metal–organic framework (MOF) faceted polyhedral BBs (i.e., cubes instead of spheres) into 3D hollow superstructures (or “colloidosomes”). The shell of each resultant hollow MOF colloidosome is constructed from a monolayer of cubic BBs, whose dimensions can be precisely controlled by varying the amount of emulsifier used in the synthesis.

  1. Highly Monodisperse MIII-Based Soc-Mofs (M = in and Ga) with Cubic and Truncated Cubic Morphologies
    Pang, Maolin, Amy J. Cairns, Yunling Liu, Youssef Belmabkhout, Hua Chun Zeng, and Mohamed Eddaoudi.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society 134, no. 32, 13176-79, (2012)

  2. Synthesis and Integration of Fe-Soc-Mof Cubes into Colloidosomes Via a Single-Step Emulsion-Based Approach
    Pang, Maolin, Amy J. Cairns, Yunling Liu, Youssef Belmabkhout, Hua Chun Zeng, and Mohamed Eddaoudi.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society 135, no. 28, 10234-37, (2013)

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Structure directing agents induced morphology evolution and phase transition from indium-basedrho- to sod-ZMOF
Year: 2017 DOI:10.1039/C7CE01143A
Authors: Y. Shi, A.J. Cairns, Y. Liu, Y. Belmabkhout, X. Cai, M. Pang, M. Eddaoudi
CrystEngComm, Issue 19, 4265-4268, (2017)
  • Morphology evolution
  • Indium-based rho- and sod-ZMOFs
  • Structure directing agents (SDAs)
Synthesis and integration of Fe-soc-MOF cubes into colloidosomes via a single-step emulsion-based approach
Year: 2013 DOI:10.1021/ja403994u
Authors: M. Pang, A.J. Cairns, Y. Liu, Y. Belmabkhout, H.C. Zeng, M. Eddaoudi
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, no. 28: 10234-37, (2013)
  • Metal-organic frameworks
  • MOFs
  • Colloidosomes
  • self-assembly
Highly monodisperse M-III-based soc -MOFs (M = In and Ga) with cubic and truncated cubic morphologies
Year: 2012 DOI:10.1021/ja3049282
Authors: M. Pang, A.J. Cairns, Y. Liu, Y. Belmabkhout, H.C. Zeng, M. Eddaoudi
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134 (32), 13176-13179, (2012)
  • Building blocks
  • Cubic morphology
  • Metal Organic Framework
  • Monodisperse
  • Morphological evolution
  • Self-assembled
  • Shape-controlled
  • Uniform crystals
  • Chemistry
  • Synthesis (chemical)
  • gallium
  • Indium
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