Fatty acids as biomimetic replication agents for luminescent metal–organic framework patterns

Häfner, Michael; Carraro, Francesco; Brandner, Lea A.; Maniam, S. M.; Grenci, Gianluca; Ljubojević-Holzer, Senka; Bischof, Helmut; Malli, Roland; Borisov, Sergey; Doonan, Christian J.; Falcaro, Paolo

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“…Two kinds of techniques, the bottom-up and top-down methods, have been established for the fabrication of MOF patterns. The bottom-up routes start from selective growth of MOF crystals at modified position, [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] and the top-down methods rely on lithography techniques to remove MOFs at designated areas. [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] Generally, there is a tradeoff between feature resolution and the cost among these methods.…”

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3D MOF Nanoarchitecture Membrane via Ultrafast Laser Nanoforging

Liu

Xiang

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Metal‐organic framework (MOF) crystals are useful in a vast area of applications because of their unique chemical and physical properties. Manufacturing of an integrated MOF membrane with 3D nanoarchitectures on the surface is especially important for their applications. However, as MOF crystals usually exist as powdery crystals, fabrication of their large area, monolithic, and high‐resolution patterns is challenging. Here, it is found that isolated MOF nanocrystals could be directly converted to a monolithic MOF film with designed 3D nanoarchitectures/patterns via an ultrafast laser induced nanoforging without binders. During the nanosecond laser shock, the voids among MOF nanocrystals are eliminated due to the surface amorphization effect, which allows the fusing of the MOF nanocrystals on the grain boundaries, leading to the formation of a dense film while preserving the nature of the pristine MOF. The high strain rate by laser enhances formability of MOFs and overcomes their brittleness to generate arbitrary 3D nanoarchitectures with feature sizes down to 100 nm and high productivity up to 80 cm2 min–1. These 3D MOF nanoarchitectures also exhibit boosted mechanical strength up to 100% compared with their powdery particles. This method is facile and low‐cost and could potentially be used in various fields, such as devices, separation, and biochemical applications.

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