Ionic liquid facilitated melting of the metal-organic framework ZIF-8

Vahid Nozari; Courtney Calahoo; Joshua M. Tuffnell; David A. Keen; Thomas D. Bennett; Lothar Wondraczek

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25970-0

Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Ionic liquid facilitated melting of the metal-organic framework ZIF-8

Vahid Nozari,
Courtney Calahoo,
Joshua M. Tuffnell,
David A. Keen,
Thomas D. Bennett,
Lothar Wondraczek

Affiliations

Vahid Nozari: Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, University of Jena
Courtney Calahoo: Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, University of Jena
Joshua M. Tuffnell: Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
David A. Keen: ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
Thomas D. Bennett: Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
Lothar Wondraczek: Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, University of Jena

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25970-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

Read online

The variety of hybrid glasses from metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has remained strongly limited to only a handful of compounds. Here, the authors introduce a route to melt highly porous and non-meltable MOFs using ionic liquids in order to extend the range of MOF glasses.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

About the journal