Vapor-Assisted Powder Synthesis and Oriented MOF-CVD Thin Films of the Metal-Organic Framework HKUST-1

Sabina Rodríguez-Hermida; Dmitry E Kravchenko; Nathalie Wauteraerts; Rob Ameloot

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02490

Vapor-Assisted Powder Synthesis and Oriented MOF-CVD Thin Films of the Metal-Organic Framework HKUST-1

Inorg Chem. 2022 Nov 14;61(45):17927-17931. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02490. Epub 2022 Nov 3.

Authors

Sabina Rodríguez-Hermida¹, Dmitry E Kravchenko¹, Nathalie Wauteraerts¹, Rob Ameloot¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for Membrane Separations, Adsorption, Catalysis and Spectroscopy, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, Box 2454, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.

PMID: 36326803
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02490

Abstract

A vapor-assisted synthesis method was developed for the metal-organic framework (MOF) HKUST-1 in both powder and film format. The use of a solvent template supplied from the vapor phase is essential to form the framework under these conditions. Chemical vapor deposition of HKUST-1 films (MOF-CVD) results in smooth films that show the expected adsorption behavior. Interestingly, the HKUST-1 films obtained this way show a (111) preferred crystallographic orientation.