Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Liquid phase blending of metal-organic frameworks

  • Louis Longley,
  • Sean M. Collins,
  • Chao Zhou,
  • Glen J. Smales,
  • Sarah E. Norman,
  • Nick J. Brownbill,
  • Christopher W. Ashling,
  • Philip A. Chater,
  • Robert Tovey,
  • Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb,
  • Thomas F. Headen,
  • Nicholas J. Terrill,
  • Yuanzheng Yue,
  • Andrew J. Smith,
  • Frédéric Blanc,
  • David A. Keen,
  • Paul A. Midgley,
  • Thomas D. Bennett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04553-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The recently introduced glass and liquid states of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) provide opportunities to design and explore new properties for this class of material. Here, the authors show that a MOF liquid can be blended with another MOF component to produce domain-structured MOF glasses with single, tailorable glass transitions.