title: Highly oriented surface-growth and covalent dye labeling of mesoporous metal-organic frameworks.
abstract: Mesoporous amino-functionalized metal-organic framework thin films with the UiO-68 topology were grown in a highly oriented fashion on two different self-assembled monolayers on gold. The oriented MOF films were covalently modified with the fluorescent dye Rhodamine B inside the pore system, as demonstrated with size-selective fluorescence quenching studies. Our study suggests that mesoporous metal-organic frameworks are promising hosts for the covalent attachment of numerous functional moieties in a molecularly designed crystalline environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Center for NanoScience, University of Munich, Butenandtstraße 11 (E), 81377 München, Germany.
authors.forename: Florian M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Hinterholzinger
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wuttke
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Preusse
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schaate
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Behrens
authors.forename: Adelheid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Godt
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bein