Fast Nucleation and Growth of ZIF-8 Nanocrystals Monitored by Time-Resolved In Situ Small-Angle and Wide-Angle X-Ray Scattering

摘要

Porous coordination polymers (PCPs) or metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a novel fascinating class of crystalline porous inorganic-organic hybrid materials, with many potential applications in gas storage, separation, sensing, catalysis, and medical diagnostics. MOFs are usually synthesized from solution under mild conditions. At present, the synthesis of new MOFs is guided by choosing metal cations and polydentate organic bridging ligands with known coordination preferences that assemble with some degree of predictability into a particular three-dimensional frame-work, which may allow further modification by postsynthetic methods.