Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Metal-organic framework and inorganic glass composites

  • Louis Longley,
  • Courtney Calahoo,
  • René Limbach,
  • Yang Xia,
  • Joshua M. Tuffnell,
  • Adam F. Sapnik,
  • Michael F. Thorne,
  • Dean S. Keeble,
  • David A. Keen,
  • Lothar Wondraczek,
  • Thomas D. Bennett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19598-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Metal-organic frameworks constitute a family of glass formers that is distinct from those that are polymeric, metallic, or inorganic. Here the authors show that they can be combined with different inorganic aluminophosphate glasses to produce a composite with mechanical properties intermediate between the two end-members.