Ultra-thin metal-organic framework nanoribbons

Bingqing Wang; Meiting Zhao; Liuxiao Li; Ying Huang; Xiao Zhang; Chong Guo; Zhicheng Zhang; Hongfei Cheng; Wenxian Liu; Jing Shang; Jing Jin; Xiaoming Sun; Junfeng Liu; Hua Zhang

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwz118

Ultra-thin metal-organic framework nanoribbons

Natl Sci Rev. 2020 Jan;7(1):46-52. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwz118. Epub 2019 Aug 13.

Authors

Bingqing Wang^{1

2}, Meiting Zhao², Liuxiao Li², Ying Huang², Xiao Zhang², Chong Guo¹, Zhicheng Zhang², Hongfei Cheng², Wenxian Liu¹, Jing Shang¹, Jing Jin¹, Xiaoming Sun¹, Junfeng Liu¹, Hua Zhang^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
² Center for Programmable Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
³ Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Abstract

Structure engineering of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) at the nanometer scale is attracting increasing interest due to their unique properties and new functions that normally cannot be achieved in bulk MOF crystals. Here, we report the preparation of ultra-thin MOF nanoribbons (NRBs) by using metal-hydroxide nanostructures as the precursors. Importantly, this general method can be used to synthesize various kinds of ultra-thin MOF NRBs, such as MBDC (M = Co, Ni; BDC = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate), NiCoBDC, CoTCPP (TCPP = tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin) and MIL-53(Al) NRBs. As a proof-of-concept application, the as-prepared ultra-thin CoBDC NRBs have been successfully used as a fluorescent sensing platform for DNA detection, which exhibited excellent sensitivity and selectivity. The present strategy might open an avenue to prepare MOF nanomaterials with new structures and unique properties for various promising applications.

Keywords: DNA detection; metal-hydroxide nanostructures; metal-organic frameworks; nanoribbons; structure engineering.