title: Highly crystalline MOF-based materials grown on electrospun nanofibers.
abstract: Supported Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) with a high specific surface area are of great interest for applications in gas storage, separation, sensing, and catalysis. In the present work we report the synthesis of a novel composite architecture of MOF materials supported on a flexible mat of electrospun nanofibers. The system, based on three-dimensional interwoven nanofibers, was designed by using a low-cost and scalable multistep synthesis protocol involving a combination of electrospinning and low-temperature atomic layer deposition of oxide materials, and their subsequent solvothermal conversion under either conventional or microwave-assisted heating. This highly versatile approach allows the production of different types of supported MOF crystals with controlled sizes, morphology, orientation and high accessibility.
authors.affiliation: Institut Europeen des Membranes, UMR 5635 CNRS Universite Montpellier, Place Eugene Bataillon, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. mikhael.bechelany@univ-montp2.fr.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bechelany
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authors.lastname: Drobek
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vallicari
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authors.lastname: Abou Chaaya
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authors.lastname: Julbe
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authors.lastname: Miele