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Metal-Organic Frameworks

Chemistry In Pictures

Chemistry in Pictures: Odd MOF

by Craig Bettenhausen
August 3, 2023

 

A micrograph shows platelet crystals in 3-D star patterns.
Credit: Submitted by Hitendra Kumar and Balasubramanian Srinivasan

This image shows a zinc-based metal organic framework (MOF) synthesized from a small biomolecule. Typically, zinc-based MOFs form 3D nanoparticles with a uniform shape, says Hitendra Kumar, a postdoc at the University of Calgary. But this one decided to be different, forming this hierarchical morphology that Kumar says indicates an unusual crystal-growth type mechanism , which they hope to explore in future work. Some of these crystals display a planar disc-like morphology, another difference from typical Zn-based MOFs.

Submitted by Hitendra Kumar and Balasubramanian Srinivasan

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