Articulo
Metal-organic frameworks meet polymer brushes: enhanced crystalline film growth induced by macromolecular primers
Autor
Rafti, Matías
Allegretto, Juan Alejandro
Segovia, Gustavo M.
Tuninetti, Jimena Soledad
Giussi, Juan Martín
Bindini, Elisa
Azzaroni, Omar
Institución
Resumen
We used poly-(3-sulfopropylmethacrylate) brushes as macromolecular 3D primers to promote heterogeneous nucleation and growth of archetypal ZIF-8 MOF thin films. The enhancement can be understood in terms of a high preconcentration of Zn2+ ions in the polymer brush; this leads to a rapid increase of nucleation sites in the primer. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas