Elaboration and properties of hierarchically structured optical thin films of MIL-101(Cr)Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Synthesis conditions, characterizations of NPs (DLS, PXRD, Zeta potential, MET, TGA, N2adsorption), GI-WAXS, thermal stability, thickness and refractive index of thin films. See DOI: 10.1039/b915011k

Stable nanoparticles dispersions of the porous hybrid MIL-101(Cr) allow dip-coating of high quality optical thin films with dual hierarchical porous structure. Moreover, for the first time, mechanical and sorption properties of mesoporous MOFs based thin films are evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]