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Hybrid glasses from strong and fragile metal-organic framework liquids

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  • Thomas D. Bennett

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Jin-Chong Tan

    (University of Oxford)

  • Yuanzheng Yue

    (Section of Chemistry, Aalborg University
    State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology)

  • Emma Baxter

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Caterina Ducati

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Nick J. Terrill

    (Diamond Light Source Ltd, Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus)

  • Hamish H. -M. Yeung

    (International Center of Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS))

  • Zhongfu Zhou

    (Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Aberystwyth University)

  • Wenlin Chen

    (Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Aberystwyth University)

  • Sebastian Henke

    (University of Cambridge
    Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie II, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

  • Anthony K. Cheetham

    (University of Cambridge)

  • G. Neville Greaves

    (University of Cambridge
    State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology
    Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Aberystwyth University)

Abstract

Hybrid glasses connect the emerging field of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with the glass formation, amorphization and melting processes of these chemically versatile systems. Though inorganic zeolites collapse around the glass transition and melt at higher temperatures, the relationship between amorphization and melting has so far not been investigated. Here we show how heating MOFs of zeolitic topology first results in a low density ‘perfect’ glass, similar to those formed in ice, silicon and disaccharides. This order–order transition leads to a super-strong liquid of low fragility that dynamically controls collapse, before a subsequent order–disorder transition, which creates a more fragile high-density liquid. After crystallization to a dense phase, which can be remelted, subsequent quenching results in a bulk glass, virtually identical to the high-density phase. We provide evidence that the wide-ranging melting temperatures of zeolitic MOFs are related to their network topologies and opens up the possibility of ‘melt-casting’ MOF glasses.

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  • Thomas D. Bennett & Jin-Chong Tan & Yuanzheng Yue & Emma Baxter & Caterina Ducati & Nick J. Terrill & Hamish H. -M. Yeung & Zhongfu Zhou & Wenlin Chen & Sebastian Henke & Anthony K. Cheetham & G. Nevi, 2015. "Hybrid glasses from strong and fragile metal-organic framework liquids," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-7, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:6:y:2015:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms9079
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9079
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