Fabrication of free-standing ultrathin films of porous metal-organic frameworks by liquid-phase epitaxy and subsequent delamination

  • chair:

    Darbandi, M. / Arslan, H. / Shekhah, O. / Bashir, A. / Birkne, A. / Wöll, C. (2010)
  • place:

    Physica status solidi-Rapid Research Letters 4 (2010), 197-199
  • Date: 2010

  • Darbandi, M. / Arslan, H. / Shekhah, O. / Bashir, A. / Birkne, A. / Wöll, C. (2010): „Fabrication of free-standing ultrathin films of porous metal-organic frameworks by liquid-phase epitaxy and subsequent delamination
    “. In: Physica status solidi-Rapid Research Letters 4 (2010), 197-199

Abstract

In this work we describe an approach to fabricate MOF (metal-organic framework) platelets with predefined shapes and well-defined thicknesses. The process is based on growing thin, highly oriented and ordered MOF films by selective liquid-phase epitaxy on prestructured organic substrates. In a second step, the MOF platelets are delaminated employing a lift-off process. The freestanding MOF platelets were characterized with TEM and SEM, which showed no evidence of fracture or deformation of the delaminated shapes.