Early stage structural development of prototypical zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) in solution

Journal Article
Nanoscale, vol. 10, iss. 9, pp. 4291-4300, 2018
Authors
Maxwell W. Terban, Debasis Banerjee, Sanjit Ghose, Bharat Medasani, Anil Shukla, Benjamin A. Legg, Yufan Zhou, Zihua Zhu, Maria L. Sushko, James J. De Yoreo, Jun Liu, Praveen K. Thallapally, Simon J. L. Billinge
Abstract

During synthesis, Zn2+ ions become coordinated by 2-methylimidazole to form secondary building units which function as building blocks to the final ZIF-8 framework.

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