Nucleation and early stages of layer-by-layer growth of metal organic frameworks on surfaces

High resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM) is used to resolve the evolution of crystallites of a metal organic framework (HKUST-1) grown on Au(111) using a liquid-phase layer-by-layer methodology. The nucleation and faceting of individual crystallites is followed by repeatedly imaging the same su...

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Main Authors: Summerfield, Alex, Cebula, Izabela, Schröder, Martin, Beton, Peter H.
Format: Article
Published: American Chemical Society 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31719/