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Thin Films: Electrophoretic Nuclei Assembly for Crystallization of High‐Performance Membranes on Unmodified Supports (Adv. Funct. Mater. 20/2018)
Author(s) -
He Guangwei,
Dakhchoune Mostapha,
Zhao Jing,
Huang Shiqi,
Agrawal Kumar Varoon
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201870134
Subject(s) - materials science , crystallization , membrane , nanoporous , nucleation , crystallite , chemical engineering , thin film , nanotechnology , propane , organic chemistry , chemistry , engineering , metallurgy , biochemistry
In article number 1707427 , Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Guangwei He, and co‐workers from EPFL report a novel method for crystalizing ultrathin metal‐organic framework membranes, demonstrating outstanding performance for propylene‐propane separation. The versatile crystallization method, allowing controlled heterogeneous nucleation on unmodified substrates, can be extended to a wide‐range of nanoporous crystals for the synthesis of defect‐free polycrystalline thin films.