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Facet-Selective Nucleation Control for Constructing Multi-Dimensional MOFs Heterostructures.

Ru Lin¹, Hongkang Zhang¹, Yuyu Xu¹

¹School of Materials Science & Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, Shandong, 250353, China.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)

|January 17, 2026

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Researchers developed a new method to precisely engineer metal-organic framework (MOF) heterostructures. This technique controls the growth of different dimensional building units, enabling advanced applications in sensing and encryption.

Area of Science:

Materials Science
Nanotechnology
Chemical Engineering

Background:

Metal-organic frameworks (MOF) heterostructures offer tunable properties for sensing, anti-counterfeiting, and information encryption.
Precise engineering of multi-dimensional MOF heterostructures is challenging due to limited understanding of inter-dimensional growth dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

To demonstrate a facet-selective epitaxial growth approach for architecting spatially defined dimensional heterostructures.
To control the growth dynamics between different dimensional building units in MOFs.

Main Methods:

Utilizing crystalline plane-selective reactivity control for facet-selective epitaxial growth.
Manipulating surface energies to direct nucleation and growth of 2D modules on 1D microrod templates.

Keywords:

Anti‐counterfeiting systems Dimensional heterostructures Facet‐selective epitaxial growth Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)

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Achieving controlled formation of dumbbell-like and periodic modular architectures.

Main Results:

Demonstrated successful synthesis of dumbbell-like heterostructures by leveraging higher surface energy at microrod tips.
Achieved controlled formation of periodic modular architectures by enhancing reaction activity on microrod body regions.
Established a pathway for creating hierarchical dimensional heterostructures with tailored architectures.

Conclusions:

The facet-selective epitaxial growth paradigm provides a novel strategy for synthesizing complex MOF heterostructures.
Tailored hierarchical dimensional heterostructures show significant potential for advanced optoelectronics, anti-counterfeiting, and information encryption technologies.