Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

A solvent-assisted ligand exchange approach enables metal-organic frameworks with diverse and complex architectures

  • Dongbo Yu,
  • Qi Shao,
  • Qingjing Song,
  • Jiewu Cui,
  • Yongli Zhang,
  • Bin Wu,
  • Liang Ge,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Yongqiang Qin,
  • Robert Vajtai,
  • Pulickel M. Ajayan,
  • Huanting Wang,
  • Tongwen Xu,
  • Yucheng Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14671-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Metal-organic frameworks are promising for a range of applications, but architectural control is challenging. Here the authors use solvent-assisted ligand exchange to access a variety of metal-organic framework nanomaterials for precursors of nanoporous carbon with sodium ion storage properties.