Polyoxometalate Cluster-Incorporated Metal-Organic Framework Hierarchical Nanotubes

Xiaobin Xu; Shuangming Chen; Yifeng Chen; Hongyu Sun; Li Song; Wei He; Xun Wang

doi:10.1002/smll.201503695

Polyoxometalate Cluster-Incorporated Metal-Organic Framework Hierarchical Nanotubes

Small. 2016 Jun;12(22):2982-90. doi: 10.1002/smll.201503695. Epub 2016 Apr 21.

Authors

Xiaobin Xu¹, Shuangming Chen², Yifeng Chen³, Hongyu Sun⁴, Li Song², Wei He³, Xun Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China.
² National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Hefei Science Center CAS, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei Anhui, 230029, P. R. China.
³ School of Medicine and Tsinghua-Peking Joint Centers for Life Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China.
⁴ Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, The State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials (MOE), Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China.

PMID: 27101564
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201503695

Abstract

A simple method to prepare metal-organic framework (MOF) nanotubes is developed by employing polyoxometalates (POMs) as modulators. The local structure of the MOF nanotubes is investigated combining XANES and EXAFS studies. These nanotubes show both an excellent catalytic performance in the detoxification of sulfur compounds in O2 atmosphere and a remarkable cycling stability as the anode material for lithium-ion batteries.

Keywords: catalysis; hierarchical structures; lithium-ion batteries; metal-organic frameworks.