Drawing Sensors with Ball-Milled Blends of Metal-Organic Frameworks and Graphite.

ABSTRACT: The synthetically tunable properties and intrinsic porosity of conductive metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) make them promising materials for transducing selective interactions with gaseous analytes in an electrically addressable platform. Consequently, conductive MOFs are valuable functional materials with high potential utility in chemical detection. The implementation of these materials, however, is limited by the available methods for device incorporation due to their poor solubility and moderate electrical conductivity. This manuscript describes a straightforward method for the integration of moderately conductive MOFs into chemiresistive sensors by mechanical abrasion. To improve electrical contacts, blends of MOFs with graphite were generated using a solvent-free ball-milling procedur

SUBMITTER: Ko M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5677178 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature