Facile synthesis of bimetal Au-Ag nanoparticles in a Cu(I) boron imidazolate framework with mechanochromic properties

Tian Wen; De-Xiang Zhang; Juan Liu; Hai-Xia Zhang; Jian Zhang

doi:10.1039/c4cc09041a

Facile synthesis of bimetal Au-Ag nanoparticles in a Cu(I) boron imidazolate framework with mechanochromic properties

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Jan 25;51(7):1353-5. doi: 10.1039/c4cc09041a.

Authors

Tian Wen¹, De-Xiang Zhang, Juan Liu, Hai-Xia Zhang, Jian Zhang

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. zhj@fjirsm.ac.cn.

PMID: 25486112
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc09041a

Abstract

A Cu(I) boron imidazolate framework with 2-fold interpenetrating ths topology shows luminescent mechanochromism, and it can directly reduce bimetal Au-Ag nanoparticles into its structure, leading to catalytic applications.