Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Imparting amphiphobicity on single-crystalline porous materials

  • Qi Sun,
  • Hongming He,
  • Wen-Yang Gao,
  • Briana Aguila,
  • Lukasz Wojtas,
  • Zhifeng Dai,
  • Jixue Li,
  • Yu-Sheng Chen,
  • Feng-Shou Xiao,
  • Shengqian Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13300
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The inherent instabilities of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in the presence of water or organic compounds have limited their real-world applicability. Here, Ma and co-workers present a coating strategy to fabricate MOFs with amphiphobic surfaces, simultaneously protecting them from moisture and organic vapours.