Modelling the Structure of Metal-organic Framework Glasses

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We have recently demonstrated the glass-forming ability of the family of hybrid micro-porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Specifically, a family known as zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), consisting of Zn2+ ions linked by imidazolate (C3H3N2-) based organic ligands, melt upon heating in argon, and their liquids can be quenched to form glasses with a tetrahedral metal-ligand-metal connectivity. Here we propose to use netron total scattering to probe the structure of one example of a glass formed by such a route. Furthermore, we wish to investigate the relationship between this structure, and the same MOF ball-milled.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73941840
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73941840
Provenance
Creator Dr Tom Bennett; Professor David Keen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-02-29T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-03-02T08:00:00Z