Abstract2D magnetic materials have aroused widespread research interest owing to their promising application in spintronic devices. However, exploring new kinds of 2D magnetic materials with better stability and realizing their batch synthesis remain challenging. Herein, the synthesis of air‐stable 2D Cr5Te8 ultrathin crystals with tunable thickness via tube‐in‐tube chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth technology is reported. The importance of tube‐in‐tube CVD growth, which can significantly suppress the equilibrium shift to the decomposition direction and facilitate that to the synthesis reaction direction, for the synthesis of high‐quality Cr5Te8 with accurate composition, is highlighted. By precisely adjusting the growth temperature, the thickness of Cr5Te8 nanosheets is tuned from ≈1.2 nm to tens of nanometers, with the morphology changing from triangles to hexagons. Furthermore, magneto‐optical Kerr effect measurements reveal that the Cr5Te8 nanosheet is ferromagnetic with strong out‐of‐plane spin polarization. The Curie temperature exhibits a monotonic increase from 100 to 160 K as the Cr5Te8 thickness increases from 10 to 30 nm and no apparent variation in surface roughness or magnetic properties after months of exposure to air. This study provides a robust method for the controllable synthesis of high‐quality 2D ferromagnetic materials, which will facilitate research progress in spintronics.

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Highly porous zirconium-based metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) have been widely studied as materials for sorption and destruction of chemical warfare agents (CWAs). It is important to understand the diffusion of CWAs, their reaction products, and environmental molecules through MOFs to utilize these materials for protection against CWA threats. As a first step toward this goal, we study adsorption and diffusion of acetone in pristine UiO-66. We have chosen to study UiO-66 because it has been demonstrated to be effective for destruction of CWAs and simulants; we use acetone because it is a prototypical polar organic molecule small enough to be expected to diffuse fairly rapidly through nondefective UiO-66. We specifically examine the impact of framework flexibility and hydrogen bonding between acetone and the OH groups on the nodes of the framework on the diffusivity of acetone. We find that inclusion of flexibility is essential for meaningful predictions of diffusion of acetone. We have identified the dynamics of the three linkers making up the triangular window between adjacent pores as the critical factor in controlling diffusion of acetone. We demonstrate from experiments and first-principles calculations that acetone readily hydrogen bonds to UiO-66 framework OH groups. We have modified the classical potential for UiO-66 to accurately model the framework−acetone hydrogen bonds, which are not accounted for in many MOF potentials. We find that hydrogen bonding decreases the diffusivity by about 1 order of magnitude at low loading and about a factor of 3 at high loading. Thus, proper accounting of hydrogen bonding and framework flexibility are both critical for obtaining physically realistic values of diffusivities for acetone and similar-sized polar molecules in UiO-66.

Well-dispersed polyaniline–poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PANI–PVP) nanocomposite was synthesized through dispersion polymerization and then used as a novel additive to prepare a polysulfone (PSf)/PANI–PVP nanocomposite membrane via immersion precipitation process. During membrane formation, a portion of PVP acted as a pore-forming agent while another PANI–PVP nanocomposite, combined by hydrogen bonds between carbonyl groups of PVP and N-hydrogen groups of PANI, acted as a hydrophilic modification agent. The addition of PANI–PVP nanocomposite increased membrane surface pore size, porosity, and hydrophilicity. Pure water fluxes of PSf/PANI–PVP nanocomposite membranes were 1.8–3.5 times that of PSf membrane with a slight change of bovine serum albumin (BSA) rejection. The membrane antifouling property was examined by the cross-flow ultafiltration using BSA solution as the model system. The results of flux decline behavior and flux recovery ratio showed that PSf/PANI–PVP nanocomposite membranes had an excellent antifouling property. Compared with PSf/PVP membranes prepared using PVP as the additive, PSf/PANI–PVP nanocomposite membranes processed higher pure water flux and better hydrophilicity, antifouling property, and stability.

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