Nature Communications (May 2017)

Construction of hierarchically porous metal–organic frameworks through linker labilization

  • Shuai Yuan,
  • Lanfang Zou,
  • Jun-Sheng Qin,
  • Jialuo Li,
  • Lan Huang,
  • Liang Feng,
  • Xuan Wang,
  • Mathieu Bosch,
  • Ali Alsalme,
  • Tahir Cagin,
  • Hong-Cai Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15356
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Expanding pore sizes and volumes in metal-organic frameworks is challenging, but crucial for the encapsulation of larger guest molecules. Here, Zhou and colleagues report a linker labilization strategy to construct MOFs containing hierarchical pore architectures with dimensions ranging from 1.5 to 18 nm.