The CO2 capture performance of four zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), ZIF-10, ZIF-71, ZIF-68 and ZIF-69, was investigated in the presence of SO2 using molecular simulations. Our results show that SO2 is preferentially adsorbed over CO2. However, it also shows a cooperative effect on CO2 adsorption. In ZIF-10 and ZIF-71, the SO2 presence was found to have almost no effect on CO2 adsorption...

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) have attracted great interest in recent years due to their high chemical and thermal stability with promising applications in gas storage and separations. We investigate the structures of three different crystalline ZIFs - ZIF-4, ZIF-8, ZIF-zni - and their amorphous counterparts using high field (13)C and (15)N CP MAS NMR. The high field (20 T) allows for ...

Bacteria are difficult to be eliminated because of their multi-drug resistance, which brings significant threats public health. Among the antibacterial methods, mechanobactericidal surfaces provide a possible approach solving this problem. In study, generally used mechanical sterilization is developed by fabricating nanostructured coating. The functional coating simply fabricated growing zeolit...

Development of long-term effective cancer therapy remains a great challenge for both researchers and clinicians. Anaerobic lactic acid bacteria (LAB) possess intrinsic hypoxia tropism to be colonized in tumor niche, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) exhibit superior photodynamic responses upon light exposure. However, single treatment either LAB or MOFs yields unsatisfactory therapeutic outcome. ...

ZIF-8, a prototypical zeolitic porous coordination polymer, prepared via the self-assembly of tetrahedral atoms (e.g. Zn and Co) and organic imidazolate linkers, presents large cavities which are interconnected by narrow windows that allow, in principle, molecular sieving. However, ZIF-8 shows flexibility due to the swing of the imidazolate linkers, which results in the adsorption of molecules ...

An advanced multifunctional, hollow metal-organic framework (MOF) drug delivery system with a high drug loading level and targeted delivery was designed and fabricated for the first time and applied to inhibit tumour cell growth. This hollow MOF targeting drug delivery system was prepared via a simple post-synthetic surface modification procedure, starting from hollow ZIF-8 successfully obtaine...

The rational design and facile construction of hybrid metal–organic framework (MOF) with hierarchical nanostructures can motivate novel multifunctional platforms to attain desirable performance. In this work, a new series MOF-on-MOF heterostructures, including ZIF-8/Zinc(II)-hexamethylenetetramine (ZIF-8/Zn-HMT) ZIF-8 + ZIF-67/Zn-HMT-X (ZIF/Zn-HMT-X), be conveniently synthesized by heteroepitax...

The Co3O4 hollow dodecahedron (Co3O4@CN) was prepared by calcining ZIF-67 in N2 and then air atmosphere. In the Co3O4@CN compound material, nanoparticles (Co3O4 NPs) are anchored carbon skeleton, solving aggregation problem of NPs. Because retains porous structure ZIF-67, presence Co2+ Co3+ favors electron transfer between enzyme substrates, it has excellent peroxidase-like (POD-like) activity....

This paper reports for the first time in situ crystal growth of ZIF-8 on electrospun polyurethane (PU) nanofibers. In SEM images, continuous and compact ZIF-8 nanocrystals grow along electrospun PU nanofibers. The highest loading capacity of ZIF-8 on PU reaches 63%. By N2 adsorption-desorption, ZIF-8-PU shows a high surface area of 566 cm(2) g(-1). Combining the good flexibility of PU with the ...