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Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Metal-organic Frameworks
Published on: September 5, 2014
Synthesis, Characterization and Photophysical Properties of a New Family of Rare-Earth Cluster-Based Metal-Organic
Hudson A Bicalho1,2, Christopher Copeman1,2, Helliomar P Barbosa3
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St W., Montréal, QC, Canada.
Abstract:
In this work, nine new rare-earth metal-organic frameworks (RE-MOFs, where RE=Lu(III), Yb(III), Tm(III), Er(III), Ho(III), Dy(III), Tb(III), Gd(III), and Eu(III)) isostructural to Zr-MOF-808 are synthesized, characterized, and studied regarding their photophysical properties. Materials with high crystallinity and surface area are obtained from a reproducible synthetic procedure that involves the use of two fluorinated modulators. At the same time, these new RE-MOFs display tunable photoluminescent properties due to efficient linker-to-metal energy transfer promoted by the antenna effect, resulting in a series of RE-MOFs displaying lanthanoid-based emissions spanning the visible and near-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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