Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Ionic liquid facilitated melting of the metal-organic framework ZIF-8

  • Vahid Nozari,
  • Courtney Calahoo,
  • Joshua M. Tuffnell,
  • David A. Keen,
  • Thomas D. Bennett,
  • Lothar Wondraczek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25970-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The variety of hybrid glasses from metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has remained strongly limited to only a handful of compounds. Here, the authors introduce a route to melt highly porous and non-meltable MOFs using ionic liquids in order to extend the range of MOF glasses.