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Formation of new crystalline qtz-[Zn(mIm)2] polymorph from amorphous ZIF-8
Michael F Thorne1, Celia Castillo-Blas1, Lauren N McHugh1
1Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK. tdb35@cam.ac.uk.
Abstract:
The structure of a new ZIF-8 polymorph with quartz topology (qtz) is reported. This qtz-[Zn(mIm)2] phase was obtained by mechanically amorphising crystalline ZIF-8, before heating the resultant amorphous phase to between 282 and 316 °C. The high-temperature phase structure was obtained from powder X-ray diffraction, and its thermal behaviour, CO2 gas sorption properties and dye adsorption ability were investigated.
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