Nanosheets have attracted much interest because of their characteristic properties originating from anisotropic and flexible structures. Inorganic nanosheets are synthesized from precursor layered compounds through exfoliation in a liquid phase. In contrast, a versatile exfoliation approach has not been fully studied for organic layered compounds. Here we report two exfoliation approaches for o...

Nanoparticles of a copper-based layered coordination polymer, STAM-2, have been prepared via an ultrasound mediated transformation from a layered metal-organic framework, STAM-1. The structure of the material was then solved using pair distribution function analysis to identify the structural units present and the final structural model refined against the pair distribution function data.