| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The exfoliation of two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphite, layered transition metal dichalcogenides, layered double hydroxides and layered boron nitrides, has been demonstrated to give rise to extraordinary thermoelectric, catalytic, or separation properties. On the other hand, related studies of layered porous materi-als such as MOFs are comparatively less explored. While the top-down approach has been employed to exfoliate MOF nanosheets for ultrathin membranes, there still lacks an effective protocol to selectively obtain nanosheets of desired thickness and number of layers. We synthesized two 2D Cu(II) kagome MOFs, and explored the unique and reversible expansion phenomenon of the former in polar aprotic solvents and observed an unprecedented intermediate state with a bilayer structure. During the investigation of the stepwise and reversible expansion of a 2D metal-organic framework (MOF) in polar aprotic solvents, we discovered a unique bilayer intermediate state that has not been observed in other MOFs. More interestingly, exfoliation initiated from the intermediate and the fully expanded states led to the formation of double and single layer nanostructures, respectively, providing a new strategy for the selective preparation of ultrathin nanosheets from MOFs.
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