posted on 2020-03-23, 20:13authored byGaolei Zhan, Zhen-Feng Cai, Marta Martínez-Abadía, Aurelio Mateo-Alonso, Steven De Feyter
The in situ on-surface conversion process from
boroxine-linked covalent organic frameworks (COFs) to boronate ester-linked
COFs is triggered and catalyzed at room temperature by an electric
field and monitored with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The
adaptive behavior within the generated dynamic covalent libraries
(DCLs) was revealed, providing in-depth understanding of the dynamic
network switching process.