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dc.contributor.authorSelf, Katherine
dc.contributor.authorTelfer, Michael
dc.contributor.authorGreer, Heather Frances
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Wuzong
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-23T15:40:03Z
dc.date.available2015-11-23T15:40:03Z
dc.date.issued2015-12-21
dc.identifier225803244
dc.identifierb94ddb48-da43-465f-bad9-69e69c6c15f7
dc.identifier84954513511
dc.identifier000368282100031
dc.identifier.citationSelf , K , Telfer , M , Greer , H F & Zhou , W 2015 , ' Reversed crystal growth of RHO zeolite imidazolate framework (ZIF) ' , Chemistry - A European Journal , vol. 21 , no. 52 , pp. 19090–19095 . https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201503437en
dc.identifier.issn0947-6539
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9752-7076/work/58055099
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/7835
dc.descriptionKS and MT would like to thank the University of St Andrews for the studentship, Dr Jürgen Kahr and Professor Paul Wright for their help with this work, Mr Ross Blackley for his help on using the SEM and TEM microscopes and Mrs Sylvia Williamson for her assistance with the N2 adsorption tests. HFG would like to thank EPSRC for the funding (EP/K015540/1). WZZ thanks EPSRC for the financial support to purchase the FEG SEM (EP/F019580/1).en
dc.description.abstractRHO zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF), Zn1.33(O.OH)0.33(nim)1.167(pur), crystals with a rhombic dodecahedral morphology were synthesized by a solvothermal process. The growth of the crystals was studied over time using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) analyses, and a reversed crystal growth mechanism was revealed. Initially, precursor materials joined together to form disordered aggregates, which then underwent surface recrystallization forming a core–shell structure, in which a disordered core is encased in a layer of denser, less porous crystal. When the growth continued, the shell became less and less porous, until it was a layer of true single crystal. The crystallization then extended from the surface to the core over a six-week period until, eventually, true single crystals were formed.
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dc.format.extent1400909
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofChemistry - A European Journalen
dc.subjectQD Chemistryen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccQDen
dc.titleReversed crystal growth of RHO zeolite imidazolate framework (ZIF)en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEPSRCen
dc.contributor.sponsorEPSRCen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Chemistryen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. EaSTCHEMen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201503437
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201503437/full#footer-support-infoen
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/F019580/1en
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/K015540/1en


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