Nature Communications (May 2017)

Overcoming the crystallization and designability issues in the ultrastable zirconium phosphonate framework system

  • Tao Zheng,
  • Zaixing Yang,
  • Daxiang Gui,
  • Zhiyong Liu,
  • Xiangxiang Wang,
  • Xing Dai,
  • Shengtang Liu,
  • Linjuan Zhang,
  • Yang Gao,
  • Lanhua Chen,
  • Daopeng Sheng,
  • Yanlong Wang,
  • Juan Diwu,
  • Jianqiang Wang,
  • Ruhong Zhou,
  • Zhifang Chai,
  • Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt,
  • Shuao Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15369
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Zirconium phosphonate based metal-organic frameworks often exhibit superior chemical stabilities, but typically exist as poorly crystalline or amorphous materials. Here the authors exploit an ionothermal method to obtain highly porous and remarkably stable single crystalline zirconium phosphonate frameworks that can efficiently remove uranyl ions from aqueous solutions.