Formation of low density hydrous iron oxide via conformal transformation of MIL-53(Fe)

Talha J Pirzada; Stuart A MacGregor; Safeer Ahmed; Karen J Edler; Harina Amer Hamzah; Dongmei Jiang; Andrew D Burrows; John M Mitchels; Ibrahim A I Hassan; Jonathan E Halls; Frank Marken

doi:10.1039/c3cc46655h

Formation of low density hydrous iron oxide via conformal transformation of MIL-53(Fe)

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Nov 21;49(90):10593-5. doi: 10.1039/c3cc46655h.

Authors

Talha J Pirzada¹, Stuart A MacGregor, Safeer Ahmed, Karen J Edler, Harina Amer Hamzah, Dongmei Jiang, Andrew D Burrows, John M Mitchels, Ibrahim A I Hassan, Jonathan E Halls, Frank Marken

Affiliation

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. f.marken@bath.ac.uk.

PMID: 24091701
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc46655h

Abstract

Hydrous iron oxide materials with a predefined shape, photo-electrochemical activity, low density (estimated to be 0.32 g cm(-3)), and high fractal porosity (BET ca. 117 m(2) g(-1)) are formed via internal hydrolytic transformation of the crystalline metal-organic framework MIL-53(Fe) in dilute aqueous hydroxide.