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Liquid-phase epitaxial layer by layer brushing fabrication of metal-organic frameworks films

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Development of metal-organic framework (MOF) films is of great importance to expand their applications. Herein, we report a facile and universal method of liquid-phase epitaxial (LPE) layer by layer (LBL) brushing approach for fabricating MOF films on various substrates in a high-throughput fashion. This MOF films preparation method offers a great prospective to cost-effectively construct films with short preparation time and little reagent consumption. Moreover, this LBL brushing approach has been implemented successfully to assemble various MOF films, including HKUST-1, zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8), Cu(bdc), and Cu2(L)2P (L = bdc, ndc, and cam; P = dabco and bipy). Afterwards, the classic MOF HKUST-1 and ZIF-8 films were grown on sensor chip electrode and porous fiber support for good volatile organic compounds (VOCs) selective sensing and water purification applications. This study demonstrates that this LBL brushing preparation method can be employed to synthesize various MOF films with a variety of characteristics to realize their sensing and separation applications.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U23A2095), the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2022YFA1503300), the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. Y2022081), Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (No. 2022J06031), and the STS Project of Fujian-CAS (Nos. 2023T3003, 2023T3052, and 2023T3054).

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  1. College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, China

    Li-Mei Chang & Jian-Dong Huang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, 350002, China

    Li-Mei Chang, Rui Zhai, Zhi-Zhou Ma, Zhi-Gang Gu & Jian Zhang

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Zhi-Zhou Ma, Zhi-Gang Gu & Jian Zhang

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Chang, LM., Zhai, R., Ma, ZZ. et al. Liquid-phase epitaxial layer by layer brushing fabrication of metal-organic frameworks films. Nano Res. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6444-5

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