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Summerfield, Alex |
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| dc.contributor |
Cebula, Izabela |
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| dc.contributor |
Schröder, Martin |
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| dc.creator |
Beton, Peter |
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| dc.date |
2015-09-15T11:01:59Z |
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| dc.date |
2015-09-15T11:01:59Z |
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| dc.date |
2015-09-14 |
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| dc.date |
June 2013 - June 2014 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/handle/internal/28 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.25 |
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| dc.description |
High resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM) is used to resolve the evolution of crystallites of a metal organic framework (HKUST-1) grown on Au(111) using a liquid-phase layer-by-layer methodology. The nucleation and faceting of individual crystallites is followed by repeatedly imaging the same sub-micron region after each cycle of growth and we find that the growing surface is terminated by {111} facets leading to the formation of pyramidal nanostructures for [100] oriented crystallites, and triangular [111] islands with typical lateral dimensions of 10s of nanometres. AFM images reveal that crystallites can grow by 5-10 layers in each cycle. The growth rate depends on crystallographic orientation and the morphology of the gold substrate, and we demonstrate that under these conditions the growth is nanocrystalline with a morphology determined by the minimum energy surface. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
University of Nottingham |
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| dc.relation |
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b07133 |
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| dc.relation |
http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b07133 |
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| dc.subject |
Nanocrystals |
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| dc.subject |
Atomic force microscopy |
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| dc.subject |
Nucleation |
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| dc.subject |
Supramolecular organometallic chemistry |
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| dc.subject |
Crystallography |
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| dc.subject |
Surfaces |
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| dc.subject |
Nanostructures |
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| dc.subject |
Crystal growth |
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| dc.subject |
Metal organic frameworks, SURMOFs, atomic force microscopy, HKUST |
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JACS Subjects::Physical sciences::Chemistry::Physical chemistry |
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JACS Subjects::Physical sciences::Physics::Chemical physics, Solid-state physics |
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| dc.subject |
Library of Congress Subject Areas::Q Science::QC Physics::QC170 Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter |
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| dc.subject |
Library of Congress Subject Areas::Q Science::QD Chemistry::QD450 Physical and theoretical chemistry |
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| dc.title |
The nucleation and early stages of layer-by-layer growth of metal organic frameworks on surfaces |
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| dc.type |
dataset |
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