Mechanical grinding of a single-crystalline metal-organic framework triggered emission with tunable violet-to-orange luminescence

Jian-Ke Sun; Cheng Chen; Li-Xuan Cai; Cai-Xia Ren; Bin Tan; Jie Zhang

doi:10.1039/c4cc08316d

Mechanical grinding of a single-crystalline metal-organic framework triggered emission with tunable violet-to-orange luminescence

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Dec 28;50(100):15956-9. doi: 10.1039/c4cc08316d.

Authors

Jian-Ke Sun¹, Cheng Chen, Li-Xuan Cai, Cai-Xia Ren, Bin Tan, Jie 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. zhangjie@fjirsm.ac.cn.

PMID: 25384242
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc08316d

Abstract

A metal-organic framework (MOF) featuring intriguing Borromean entanglement exhibits a unique mechanochromic luminescence with on-off switching. The concomitant excitation wavelength-dependent emission behavior can be utilized to tune the emission color from violet to orange.