Surfactant-assisted synthesis of titanium nanoMOFs for thin film fabrication

María Romero-Angel; Javier Castells-Gil; Víctor Rubio-Giménez; Rob Ameloot; Sergio Tatay; Carlos Martí-Gastaldo

doi:10.1039/d1cc02828f

Surfactant-assisted synthesis of titanium nanoMOFs for thin film fabrication

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Sep 9;57(72):9040-9043. doi: 10.1039/d1cc02828f.

Authors

María Romero-Angel¹, Javier Castells-Gil¹, Víctor Rubio-Giménez², Rob Ameloot², Sergio Tatay¹, Carlos Martí-Gastaldo¹

Affiliations

¹ Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol), Universitat de València, Catedrático José Beltrán, 2 46980 Paterna, Spain. sergio.tatay@uv.es.
² Centre for Membrane Separations, Adsorption, Catalysis and Spectroscopy for Sustainable Solutions (cMACS), KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.

PMID: 34498614
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc02828f

Abstract

We use dodecanoic acid as a modulator to yield titanium MOF nanoparticles with good control of size and colloid stability and minimum impact to the properties of the framework to enable direct fabrication of crystalline, porous thin films.