title: Kinetically tuned dimensional augmentation as a versatile synthetic route towards robust metal-organic frameworks.
abstract: Metal-organic frameworks with high stability have been pursued for many years due to the sustainability requirement for practical applications. However, researchers have had great difficulty synthesizing chemically ultra-stable, highly porous metal-organic frameworks in the form of crystalline solids, especially as single crystals. Here we present a kinetically tuned dimensional augmentation synthetic route for the preparation of highly crystalline and extremely robust metal-organic frameworks with a preserved metal cluster core. Through this versatile synthetic route, we obtain large single crystals of 34 different iron-containing metal-organic frameworks. Among them, PCN-250(Fe2Co) exhibits high volumetric uptake of hydrogen and methane, and is also stable in water and aqueous solutions with a wide range of pH values.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255, USA.
authors.forename: Dawei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255, USA.
authors.forename: Kecheng
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255, USA.
authors.forename: Zhangwen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: 1] Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255, USA [2] Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77842, USA.
authors.forename: Ying-Pin
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Cory M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203, USA.
authors.forename: Ravi K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Arvapally
authors.affiliation: Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, MS 50F-1650, Berkeley, California 94720-8139, USA.
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255, USA.
authors.forename: Mathieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bosch
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255, USA.
authors.forename: Tian-Fu
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fordham
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fujian, Fuzhou 350002, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Daqiang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203, USA.
authors.forename: Mohammad A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Omary
authors.affiliation: Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, MS 50F-1650, Berkeley, California 94720-8139, USA.
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haranczyk
authors.affiliation: 1] Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA [2] Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Berend
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Smit
authors.affiliation: 1] Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255, USA [2] Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77842, USA.
authors.forename: Hong-Cai
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Zhou