Direct Imaging of Tunable Crystal Surface Structures of MOF MIL-101 Using High-Resolution Electron Microscopy
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Li, XinghuaWang, Jianjian
Liu, Xin
Liu, Lingmei
Cha, Dongkyu
Zheng, Xinliang
Yousef, Ali A.
Song, Kepeng
Zhu, Yihan
Zhang, Daliang
Han, Yu

KAUST Department
Advanced Membranes & Porous Materials CenterAdvanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research Center
Chemical Science
Chemical Science Program
Nanostructured Functional Materials (NFM) laboratory
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
KAUST Grant Number
FCC/1/1972-19Date
2019-07-19Embargo End Date
2020-07-19Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/656194
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Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are often synthesized using various additives to modulate the crystallization. Here, we report the direct imaging of the crystal surface of MOF MIL-101 synthesized with different additives, using low-dose high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), and identify three distinct surface structures, at subunit cell resolution. We find that the mesoporous cages at the outermost surface of MIL-101 can be opened up by vacuum heating treatment at different temperatures, depending on the MIL-101 samples. We monitor the structural evolution of MIL-101 upon vacuum heating, using in situ X-ray diffraction, and find the results to be in good agreement with HRTEM observations, which leads us to speculate that additives have an influence not only on the surface structure but also on the stability of framework. In addition, we observe solid–solid phase transformation from MIL-101 to MIL-53 taking place in the sample synthesized with hydrofluoric acid.Citation
Li, X., Wang, J., Liu, X., Liu, L., Cha, D., Zheng, X., … Han, Y. (2019). Direct Imaging of Tunable Crystal Surface Structures of MOF MIL-101 Using High-Resolution Electron Microscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(30), 12021–12028. doi:10.1021/jacs.9b04896Sponsors
This research was supported by competitive center funds (FCC/1/1972-19) to Y.H. from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). X. Liu was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21771029, 11811530631 and 21573034). Y. Zhu acknowledges the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21771161) and Thousand Talents Program for Distinguished Young Scholars. This research used the resources of KAUST’s Core Laboratories facilities.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Additional Links
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b04896ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/jacs.9b04896