UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Center for Reticular Chemistry California NanoSystems Institute

Conducting Frameworks



Use of hydrothermal synthesis techniques to synthesize ordered metal sulfide frameworks and polyhedra in which the building blocks progressively increase in size from 5-100 Angstroms without changing their overall tetrahedral geometry. These types of materials have been found to be useful as fast ion-conductors.

Recent Leading Publications:
Thermal conductivity of a metal-organic framework (MOF-5): Part II. Measurement, B. L., .Huang, Z. Ni, A. Millward, A. J. H. McGaughey, C. Usher, M. Kaviany, O.M. Yaghi, Int. J. Heat and Mass Trans., 2007, 50, 405-411.

NMR studies on the diffusion of hydrocarbons on the metal-organic framework material MOF-5, F. Stallmach, S. Gröger, V. Künzel, J. Kärger, O. M. Yaghi, M. Hesse, U. Müller, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 2123-2126.

20 _ Cd4In16S3514- supertetrahedral T4 clusters as building units in decorated cristobalite frameworks, H. Li, J. Kim, T. Groy, M. O'Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 4867.

Supertetrahedral sulfide crystals with giant cavities and channels, H. Li, A. Laine, M. O'Keeffe, O. M. Yaghi, Science, 1999, 283, 1145.
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