Synthesis and integration of Fe-soc-MOF cubes into colloidosomes via a single-step emulsion-based approach

Maolin Pang, Amy Cairns, Yunling Liu, Youssef Belmabkhout, Huachun Zeng, Mohamed Eddaoudi

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Abstract

Bottom-up fabrication of complex 3D hollow superstructures from nonspherical building blocks (BBs) poses a significant challenge for scientists in materials chemistry and physics. Spherical colloidal silica or polystyrene particles are therefore often integrated as BBs for the preparation of an emerging class of materials, namely colloidosomes (using colloidal particles for Pickering stabilization and fusing them to form a permeable shell). Herein, we describe for the first time a one-step emulsion-based technique that permits the assembly of metal-organic framework (MOF) faceted polyhedral BBs (i.e., cubes instead of spheres) into 3D hollow superstructures (or "colloidosomes" ). The shell of each resultant hollow MOF colloidosome is constructed from a monolayer of cubic BBs, whose dimensions can be precisely controlled by varying the amount of emulsifier used in the synthesis. © 2013 American Chemical Society.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)10234-10237
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume135
Issue number28
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 9 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Colloid and Surface Chemistry
  • General Chemistry
  • Catalysis

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