Investigation of Melting Mechanism with Incorporation of Responsive Materials into Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Glasses (2025)
Abstract
Metal-organic framework (MOF) glasses have attracted increasing attention in recent years owing to their promising properties, such as porosity, high processibility, and free grain boundaries. This leads to versatile applications in molecular adsorption, separation, catalysis and ion conduction. However, the study of the melting mechanism in MOF glasses is still in its infancy stage. We have demonstrated incorporation of other materials can increase perturbation which results in meltable MOFs. We propose to employ to in-situ THz-FIR, which provides high-resolution data to uncover the dynamic changes of interfacial bonding. This will open up wisely design of novel meltable MOFs.
