Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Redox-switchable breathing behavior in tetrathiafulvalene-based metal–organic frameworks

  • Jian Su,
  • Shuai Yuan,
  • Hai-Ying Wang,
  • Lan Huang,
  • Jing-Yuan Ge,
  • Elizabeth Joseph,
  • Junsheng Qin,
  • Tahir Cagin,
  • Jing-Lin Zuo,
  • Hong-Cai Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02256-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Modulating the adsorption behaviours of metal-organic frameworks using external stimuli is desirable, but challenging to achieve. Here, Zhou and colleagues design an indium-based MOF in which tetrathiafulvalene ligands undergo reversible redox reactions that alter the framework breathing behaviour.