Ultrasonic Exfoliation of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Metal-Organic Frameworks To Form Nanosheets.

ABSTRACT: The modular structure of metal-organic framework nanosheets (MONs) provides a convenient route to creating two-dimensional materials with readily tuneable surface properties. Here, the liquid exfoliation of two closely related layered metal-organic frameworks functionalised with either methoxy-propyl (1) or pentyl (2) pendent groups intended to bestow either hydrophilic or hydrophobic character to the resulting nanosheets is reported. Exfoliation of the two materials in a range of different solvents highlighted significant differences in their dispersion properties, as well as their molecular and nanoscopic structures. Exchange or loss of solvent was found to occur at the labile axial position of the paddle-wheel based MONs and DFT calculations indicated that intramolecular coordination by

SUBMITTER: Ashworth DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6348380 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature