Wedging crystals to fabricate crystalline framework nanosheets via mechanochemistry

Autor: Yun Fan, Yu Shen, Jia Zhang, Xinglong Zhang, Zeqi Zhang, Hongfeng Li, Yong Peng, Jiena Weng, Ruijie Xie, Wenlei Zhang, Yu Han, Yawen Xiao, Suoying Zhang, Bing Zheng, Hao-Li Zhang, Sheng Li, Wei Huang, Fengwei Huo, Weina Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51177-0
Popis: Abstract Mechanochemistry studies the effect of mechanical force on chemical bonds, bringing opportunities for synthesizing alloys, ceramics, organics, polymers, and biomaterials. A vital issue of applying macro-scale mechanical force to manipulate crystal structures is finding ways to precisely adjust the force directions to break micro-scale target chemical bonds. Inspired by a common technique of driving a wedge into the wood to make wood chopping much easier, a wedging strategy of splitting three-dimensional structured crystalline frameworks and then converting them to nanosheets was proposed, where specific molecules were wedged into crystalline frameworks to drive the directional transmission of mechanical force to break chemical bonds. As a result, various crystalline framework nanosheets including metal−organic framework nanosheets, covalent organic framework nanosheets, and coordination polymer nanosheets were fabricated. This wedging crystal strategy exhibits advantages of operability, flexibility and designability, and furthermore, it is expected to expand mechanochemistry applications in material preparation.
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