Amino acids as biomimetic crystallization agents for the synthesis of ZIF-8 particles

Kang Liang; Raffaele Ricco; Cara M. Doherty; Mark J. Styles; Paolo Falcaro

doi:10.1039/c5ce02549d

Amino acids as biomimetic crystallization agents for the synthesis of ZIF-8 particles

Kang Liang^*, Raffaele Ricco, Cara M. Doherty, Mark J. Styles, Paolo Falcaro

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Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (6350)

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Biomimetic mineralization of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) exploits the use of biomolecules to control MOF crystallization processes. Here, we investigate 20 natural amino acids as biomimetic crystallization agents for the synthesis of ZIF-8 particles in aqueous solution. The morphology, size, and particle number of resultant MOF crystals were strongly dependent on the chemical nature of amino acid side chains that match closely the four classes of amino acids: nonpolar, polar neutral, polar negative and polar positive.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4264-4267
Number of pages	4
Journal	CrystEngComm
Volume	18
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ce02549d
Publication status	Published - 2016

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General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics

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