{"id":173993,"date":"2023-10-11T19:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T00:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-realize-orientation-control-of-cmof-nanofilms"},"modified":"2023-10-11T19:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T00:28:06","slug":"researchers-realize-orientation-control-of-cmof-nanofilms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-realize-orientation-control-of-cmof-nanofilms","title":{"rendered":"Researchers realize orientation control of cMOF nanofilms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-realize-orientation-control-of-cmof-nanofilms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Kyoto University have proposed a strategy to grow \u201cface-on\u201d and \u201cedge-on\u201d conductive metal-organic frameworks (cMOF) nanofilms on substrates by controlling the \u201cstand-up\u201d behaviors of ligands on various surfaces to overcome the difficulty in the orientation control of such films.<\/p>\n<p>They established operando characterization methodology using <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+force+microscopy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic force microscopy<\/a> and X-ray to demonstrate the softness of the crystalline nanofilms and reveal their unique conductive functions. The study was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2305125120\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a> on Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>CMOFs have great potential for use in modern electrical devices due to their porous nature and the ability to conduct charges in a regular network. cMOFs applied in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical devices<\/a> normally hybridize with other materials, especially substrates. Therefore, precisely controlling the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/interface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">interface<\/a> between a cMOF and a substrate is crucial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Kyoto University have proposed a strategy to grow \u201cface-on\u201d and \u201cedge-on\u201d conductive metal-organic frameworks (cMOF) nanofilms on substrates by controlling the \u201cstand-up\u201d behaviors of ligands on various surfaces to overcome the difficulty in the orientation control of such films. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}