Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Stable and ordered amide frameworks synthesised under reversible conditions which facilitate error checking

  • David Stewart,
  • Dmytro Antypov,
  • Matthew S. Dyer,
  • Michael J. Pitcher,
  • Alexandros P. Katsoulidis,
  • Philip A. Chater,
  • Frédéric Blanc,
  • Matthew J. Rosseinsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01423-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Irreversible bond formation in covalent organic frameworks leads to amorphous materials. Here, the authors show that crystalline and ultra-stable covalent amide frameworks can be accessed by devitrification of amorphous polyamide networks.