Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) beyond crystallinity: amorphous MOFs, MOF liquids and MOF glasses

J Fonseca, T Gong, L Jiao, HL Jiang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) has been incorrectly believed to be purely
crystalline. However, non-crystalline MOFs (amorphous MOFs, MOF liquids, and MOF …

Confinement of luminescent guests in metal–organic frameworks: understanding pathways from synthesis and multimodal characterization to potential applications of …

M Gutiérrez, Y Zhang, JC Tan - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
This review gives an authoritative, critical, and accessible overview of an emergent class of
fluorescent materials termed “LG@ MOF”, engineered from the nanoscale confinement of …

Metal–organic network-forming glasses

N Ma, S Horike - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The crystal–liquid–glass phase transition of coordination polymers (CPs) and metal–organic
frameworks (MOFs) offers attractive opportunities as a new class of amorphous materials …

Highly Efficient and Direct Ultralong All‐Phosphorescence from Metal–Organic Framework Photonic Glasses

B Zhou, Z Qi, D Yan - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Realizing efficient and ultralong room‐temperature phosphorescence (RTP) is highly
desirable but remains a challenge due to the inherent competition between excited state …

Macroscopic Assembly of Chiral Hydrogen‐bonded Metal‐free Supramolecular Glasses for Enhanced Color‐tunable Ultralong Room Temperature Phosphorescence

F Nie, D Yan - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Glassy materials, with desirable mechanical rigidity, sha** ability, high transparency, are
attracting great interest in diverse fields. However, optically bulk molecule‐based glasses …

Metal‐organic framework glass anode with an exceptional cycling‐induced capacity enhancement for lithium‐ion batteries

C Gao, Z Jiang, S Qi, P Wang, LR Jensen… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) hold great promise as high‐energy anode materials for
next‐generation lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) due to their tunable chemistry, pore structure …

Advancing the mechanical performance of glasses: perspectives and challenges

L Wondraczek, E Bouchbinder, A Ehrlicher… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glasses are materials that lack a crystalline microstructure and long‐range atomic order.
Instead, they feature heterogeneity and disorder on superstructural scales, which have …

Metal–organic framework glass composites

R Lin, M Chai, Y Zhou, V Chen, TD Bennett… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The melting phenomenon in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) has been recognised as
one of the fourth generation MOF paradigm behaviours. Molten MOFs have high …

Interfacial Bonding between a Crystalline Metal–Organic Framework and an Inorganic Glass

C Castillo-Blas, AM Chester, RP Cosquer… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The interface within a composite is critically important for the chemical and physical
properties of these materials. However, experimental structural studies of the interfacial …

Looking into the future of hybrid glasses

TD Bennett, S Horike, JC Mauro, MM Smedskjaer… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Glasses are typically formed by melt-quenching, that is, cooling of a liquid on a timescale
fast enough to avoid ordering to a crystalline state, and formerly thought to comprise three …