Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Construction of angstrom-scale ion channels with versatile pore configurations and sizes by metal-organic frameworks

  • Xingya Li,
  • Gengping Jiang,
  • Meipeng Jian,
  • Chen Zhao,
  • Jue Hou,
  • Aaron W. Thornton,
  • Xinyi Zhang,
  • Jefferson Zhe Liu,
  • Benny D. Freeman,
  • Huanting Wang,
  • Lei Jiang,
  • Huacheng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35970-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The fabrication of synthetic nanochannels for ion separation is challenging. Here, the authors synthesize angstrom-scale ion channels featuring one-dimensional to three-dimensional pore configurations by growing metal‒organic frameworks into nanochannels; the structure of the pore influences the ion transport performance.