Confinement of luminescent guests in metal–organic frameworks: understanding pathways from synthesis and multimodal characterization to potential applications of …

M Gutiérrez, Y Zhang, JC Tan - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
This review gives an authoritative, critical, and accessible overview of an emergent class of
fluorescent materials termed “LG@ MOF”, engineered from the nanoscale confinement of …

A critical assessment on calculating vibrational spectra in nanostructured materials

AEJ Hoffman, W Temmerman, E Campbell… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Vibrational spectroscopy is an omnipresent spectroscopic technique to characterize
functional nanostructured materials such as zeolites, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) …

The role of phonons in switchable MOFs: a model material perspective

AEJ Hoffman, I Senkovska, L Abylgazina… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The large cell volume changes of switchable metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) render them
as promising functional materials. Low-frequency phonon modes are known to influence the …

Unfolding the terahertz spectrum of soft porous crystals: rigid unit modes and their impact on phase transitions

AEJ Hoffman, I Senkovska, J Wieme, A Krylov… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Phase transitions in flexible metal–organic frameworks or soft porous crystals are mediated
by low-frequency phonons or rigid-unit modes. The alteration of specific building blocks may …

Dynamic three-dimensional structures of a metal–organic framework captured with femtosecond serial crystallography

J Kang, Y Lee, S Lee, H Ki, J Kim, J Gu, Y Cha… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Crystalline systems consisting of small-molecule building blocks have emerged as
promising materials with diverse applications. It is of great importance to characterize not …

Structural phase transitions in flexible DUT-8 (Ni) under high hydrostatic pressure

A Krylov, I Yushina, E Slyusareva, S Krylova… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The behaviours of the open pore (op) and closed pore (cp) phases of the flexible Ni2 (ndc) 2
(dabco)(ndc–2, 6-naphthalene dicarboxylate, dabco–1, 4-diazabicyclo [2.2. 2] octane, DUT …

Experimental evidence for vibrational entropy as driving parameter of flexibility in the metal–organic framework ZIF-4 (Zn)

KT Butler, P Vervoorts, MG Ehrenreich… - Chemistry of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Large structural flexibility in some metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is not only fascinating
from a fundamental point of view but offers exciting opportunities in the areas of gas sensing …

Phononic modulation of spin-lattice relaxation in molecular qubit frameworks

A Zhou, D Li, M Tan, Y Lv, S Pang, X Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The solid-state integration of molecular electron spin qubits could promote the advancement
of molecular quantum information science. With highly ordered structures and rational …

Computational Modeling of Reticular Materials: The Past, the Present, and the Future

W Temmerman, R Goeminne, KS Rawat… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reticular materials rely on a unique building concept where inorganic and organic building
units are stitched together giving access to an almost limitless number of structured ordered …

Raman Evidence of Multiple Adsorption Sites and Structural Transformation in ZIF-4

P Jain, G Kumari, M Bhogra, P Yanda… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The zeolitic imidazolate framework, ZIF-4, exhibits soft porosity and is known to show pore
volume changes with temperatures, pressures, and guest adsorption. However, the …