Role of Host-Guest Interaction in Understanding Polymerisation in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Metal-organic frameworks, MOFs, offer an effective template for polymerisation of polymers with precisely controlled structures within the sub-nanometre scales. However, synthetic difficulties such as monomer infiltration, detailed understanding mechanisms MOF nanochannels and mechanism removing post have prevented wide scale implementation in MOFs. This is partly due to significant lack energetic atomic-scale intermolecular interactions between monomers Consequently this study, we explore interaction varied concentration styrene, 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT), at surface nanochannel Zn 2 (1,4-ndc) (dabco), where 1,4-ndc = 1,4-naphthalenedicarboxylate dabco 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane. Our results showed that are stronger than surfaces MOF. Moreover, MOF-monomer strongest increase number monomers. increases, turn bind more strongly leading a potential agglomeration surface.