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Rapid room temperature syntheses of zeolitic-imidazolate framework (ZIF) nanocrystals
Min Tu1, Christian Wiktor, Christoph Rösler
1Chair of Inorganic Chemistry II - Organometallics and Materials Chemistry, Ruhr Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany. roland.fischer@rub.de.
Abstract:
Solvent mixture controlled rapid room temperature syntheses for facile access to uniform zeolitic-imidazolate framework nanocrystals (ZIF-7, ZIF-65-Zn and ZIF-71) are reported. ZIF thin film devices for sensing volatile organic chemicals were fabricated by dip-coating nano-ZIF (80-130 nm) suspensions.

