Epitaxial growth of metal-organic framework nanosheets into single-crystalline orthogonal arrays.

ABSTRACT: Construction of two-dimensional nanosheets into three-dimensional regular structures facilitates the mass transfer and exploits the maximum potential of two-dimensional building blocks in applications such as catalysis. Here, we report the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks with an orthogonal nanosheet array. The assembly involves the epitaxial growth of single crystalline metal-organic framework nanosheets with a naturally non-preferred facet exposure as the shell on a cubic metal-organic framework as the core. The nanosheets, despite of two typical shapes and crystallographic orientations, also form a single crystalline orthogonally arrayed framework. The density and size of nanosheets in the core-shell-structured composite metal-organic frameworks can be well adjusted. Moreover, meta

SUBMITTER: Zou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10507060 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature