Unconventional nucleation and oriented growth of ZIF-8 crystals on non-polar surface

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Li, Shaozhou, Shi, Wenxiong, Lu, Guang, Li, Shuzhou, Loo, Say Chye Joachim, Huo, Fengwei
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97112; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10455

Zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) crystals show unconventionally selective nucleation and oriented growth on a patterned self-assembled monolayer (SAM) surface. The growth selectivity and crystal orientation are also affected by the odd-even effect for SAMs. The oriented growth of the ZIF-8 crystals is found to result from fast crystallization of the nuclei triggered by the specific SAM surfaces.