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Author Spotlight: Characterizing Porous Materials for Aiding the Development of Robust Metal-Organic Frameworks with Adsorption Behavior
Published on: March 8, 2024
Porosity in metal-organic framework glasses
A W Thornton1, K E Jelfs2, K Konstas1
1Future Industries, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Private Bag 10, Clayton Sth, VIC 3169, Australia.
Abstract:
The porosity of a glass formed by melt-quenching a metal-organic framework, has been characterized by positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. The results reveal porosity intermediate between the related open and dense crystalline frameworks ZIF-4 and ZIF-zni. A structural model for the glass was constructed using an amorphous polymerization algorithm, providing additional insight into the gas-inaccessible nature of porosity and the possible applications of hybrid glasses.
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