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Dynamic Electric Field Alignment of Metal–Organic Framework Microrods
journal contribution
posted on 2019-08-08, 14:03 authored by Fei Cheng, Adam J. Young, Jean-Sebastien
G. Bouillard, Neil T. Kemp, Rémy Guillet-Nicolas, Connor H. Hall, David Roberts, Ayoub H. Jaafar, Ali M. Adawi, Freddy Kleitz, Arnout Imhof, Michael R. Reithofer, Jia Min ChinAlignment of metal–organic
framework (MOF) crystals has
previously been performed via careful control of oriented MOF growth
on substrates, as well as by dynamic magnetic alignment. We show here
that bromobenzene-suspended microrod crystals of the MOF NU-1000 can
also be dynamically aligned via electric fields, giving rise to rapid
electrooptical responses. This method of dynamic MOF alignment opens
up new avenues of MOF control which are important for integration
of MOFs into switchable electronic devices as well as in other applications
such as reconfigurable sensors or optical systems.
