Study reveals determinants of single crystal growth of metal-organic frameworks

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous framework compounds self-assembled by metal ions or metal-oxygen clusters connected to organic ligands through strong coordination bonds.

The team of Zhou Xiaochun, a researcher at the Suzhou Institute of Nanotechnology and Nanobionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has accumulated many years of research experience in in situ imaging with optical microscopy, and has made a series of progress, including total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy imaging (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 138-146; Nature Nanotechnology, 2012, 7, 237-241; ACS Catalysis, 2013, 3, 1448-1453; Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 20132-20141; Nature Chemistry, 2018, 10, 607-614) and Dark field microscopy imaging (ACS Catalysis, 2017, 7, 3607-3614; Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 14277-14284; Small, 2021, 17(14), 2007302)

Recently, the team of Zhou Xiaochun and the team of Professor Deng Hexiang of Wuhan University have for the first time revealed the determinants of MOF single crystal growth based on the in situ dark field microscope platform combined with super-resolution technology

The related research results were published in Chem under the title Determining factors in the growth of MOF single crystals unveiled by in situ interface imaging

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