Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Large breathing effect in ZIF-65(Zn) with expansion and contraction of the SOD cage

  • Meizhen Gao,
  • Rui-Kang Huang,
  • Bin Zheng,
  • Pengfei Wang,
  • Qi Shi,
  • Wei-Xiong Zhang,
  • Jinxiang Dong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32332-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Flexible metal-organic frameworks have potential applications in the development of sensors and switching materials. Here, the authors report a large breathing effect in a zeolitic imidazolate framework upon guest adsorption.