Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Rational approach to guest confinement inside MOF cavities for low-temperature catalysis

  • Tiesheng Wang,
  • Lijun Gao,
  • Jingwei Hou,
  • Servann J. A. Herou,
  • James T. Griffiths,
  • Weiwei Li,
  • Jinhu Dong,
  • Song Gao,
  • Maria-Magdalena Titirici,
  • R. Vasant Kumar,
  • Anthony K. Cheetham,
  • Xinhe Bao,
  • Qiang Fu,
  • Stoyan K. Smoukov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08972-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Loading guests inside the pre-existing pores of nanoporous hosts remains challenging. Here, the authors introduce a rational route for incorporation of guest compounds into an arbitrary nanoporous host, enabling the investigation of multiple host-guest systems with surprising functionalities.