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MOF morphologies in control

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The calcination of metal–organic framework (MOF) precursors is promising for the preparation of nanoscale carbon materials, but the resulting morphologies have remained limited. Now, controlling the growth of precursor MOFs has enabled 1D carbon nanorods to be fabricated — these can then be readily unravelled into 2D graphene nanoribbons.

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Figure 1: The synthesis of graphene nanoribbons via MOF-74.

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  1. Jing Tang and Yusuke Yamauchi are in the World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan,

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  2. Y.Y. is also in the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM), University of Wollongong, North Wollongong, New South Wales 2500, Australia,

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Tang, J., Yamauchi, Y. MOF morphologies in control. Nature Chem 8, 638–639 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2548

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