Nature Communications (May 2019)

Acoustomicrofluidic assembly of oriented and simultaneously activated metal–organic frameworks

  • Heba Ahmed,
  • Amgad R. Rezk,
  • Joseph J. Richardson,
  • Lauren K. Macreadie,
  • Ravichandar Babarao,
  • Edwin L. H. Mayes,
  • Lillian Lee,
  • Leslie Y. Yeo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10173-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The growth of oriented crystalline metal–organic frameworks is desirable to exploit their surface area and porosity, but has proven difficult. Here the authors fabricate highly-oriented and simultaneously activated free-standing MOFs by an acoustically driven microcentrifugation platform.