title: Rapid and reversible formation of a crystalline hydrate of a metal-organic framework containing a tube of hydrogen-bonded water.
abstract: The flexible metal-organic framework MIL-53(Cr) undergoes a dramatic volume expansion upon immersion in water at room temperature to form a crystalline hydrate in which water is held as a hydrogen-bonded tube: the hydration is readily reversible under ambient conditions as shown by time-resolved powder X-ray diffraction.
authors.affiliation: Institut Lavoisier Versailles, Université de Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines (UMR CNRS 8180), 45 Avenue des Etats-Unis, 78035, Versailles Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Guillou
authors.forename: Franck
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Millange
authors.forename: Richard I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Walton