title: Non-, micro-, and mesoporous metal-organic framework isomers: reversible transformation, fluorescence sensing, and large molecule separation.
abstract: For the first time, three novel metal-organic framework (MOF) isomers with hierarchical channel sizes of nonpore or micropore or mesopore were successfully prepared by simply controlling the amounts of solvent or/and reaction temperatures/time. Strikingly, we have demonstrated the reversible transformation between the microporous and mesoporous MOFs triggered by solvent or/and temperature perturbation. The desolvated microporous MOF has been evaluated to be a promising luminescent probe for detecting small molecules, and the mesoporous MOF could be the stationary phase in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for size-exclusion separation of large dye molecules.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan.
authors.forename: Hai-Long
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Yoshiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tatsu
authors.forename: Zhang-Hui
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xu