Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Chemical diversity in a metal–organic framework revealed by fluorescence lifetime imaging

  • Waldemar Schrimpf,
  • Juncong Jiang,
  • Zhe Ji,
  • Patrick Hirschle,
  • Don C. Lamb,
  • Omar M. Yaghi,
  • Stefan Wuttke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04050-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Metal-organic frameworks are typically characterized by a variety of techniques, but most only provide information on properties as an average of a bulk sample. Here, Wuttke and colleagues demonstrate that fluorescence imaging and lifetime analysis allows access to local information on defects and functional groups.