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Structural insights of mechanochemically amorphised MIL-125-NH2
Emily V Shaw1, Celia Castillo-Blas1, Timothy Lambden1
1Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, UK. cc2078@cam.ac.uk.
Abstract:
In this work, we investigated the response of the metal-organic framework MIL-125-NH2 to ball-milling. Both localised and bulk analyses revealed prolongued ball-milling results in a complete loss of long-range structural order. Investigation of this disorder revealed partial retention of the local bonding of the secondary building unit, suggesting structure collapse progressed primarily through metal-linker bond breakage. We explored the photocatalytic performance of the materials, and examined the materials' band gap using UV-Vis reflectance spectroscopy.
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