posted on 2024-11-15, 02:24authored byWei Zhang, Xiangfen Jiang, Yanyi Zhao, Arnau Carne-Sanchez, Victor Malgras, Jeonghun Kim, Jung Ho KimJung Ho Kim, Shaobin Wang, Jian Liu, Ji-Sen Jiang, Yusuke Yamauchi, Ming Hu
While bulk-sized metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) face limits to their utilization in various research fields such as energy storage applications, nanoarchitectonics is believed to be a possible solution. It is highly challenging to realize MOF nanobubbles with monocrystalline frameworks. By a spatially controlled etching approach, here, we can achieve the synthesis of zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8) nanobubbles with a uniform size of less than 100 nm. Interestingly, the ZIF-8 nanobubbles possess a monocrystalline nanoshell with a thickness of around 10 nm. Under optimal pyrolytic conditions, the ZIF-8 nanobubbles can be converted into hollow carbon nanobubbles while keeping their original shapes. The structure of the nanobubble enhances the fast Na + /K + ion intercalation performance. Such remarkable improvement cannot be realized by conventional MOFs or their derived carbons.
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Zhang, W., Jiang, X., Zhao, Y., Carne-Sanchez, A., Malgras, V., Kim, J., Kim, J., Wang, S., Liu, J., Jiang, J., Yamauchi, Y. & Hu, M. (2017). Hollow carbon nanobubbles: monocrystalline MOF nanobubbles and their pyrolysis. Chemical Science, 8 (5), 3538-3546.