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Interplay between Defects, Disorder and Flexibility in Metal-Organic Frameworks
- Source :
- Nature Chemistry, 2017, 9, 11-16
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Metal-organic frameworks are a novel family of chemically diverse materials, which are of interest across engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine-based disciplines. Since the development of the field in its current form more than two decades ago, priority has been placed on the synthesis of new structures. However, more recently, a clear trend has emerged in shifting the emphasis from material design to exploring the chemical and physical properties of those already known. In particular --- while such nanoporous materials were traditionally seen as rigid crystalline structures --- there is growing evidence that large-scale flexibility, the presence of defects and long-range disorder, are not the exception, but rather the norm, in metal-organic frameworks. Here we offer some perspective into how these concepts are perhaps inescapably intertwined, highlight recent advances in our understanding, and discuss how a consideration of the interfaces between them may lead to enhancements of the materials' functionalities.
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Nature Chemistry, 2017, 9, 11-16
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1904.09497
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2691