Investigation on the prime factors influencing the formation of entangled metal–organic frameworks
Abstract
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have become a rapidly expanding research topic in the fields of synthetic chemistry and materials science in recent years. Entanglement is often considered to be an important phenomenon in MOFs. Currently, a large number of entangled metal–organic frameworks (EMOFs) have been yielded and documented well in the literature. The structure–property relationships of an EMOF can be directed and fine-tuned not only by the starting materials, i.e. metal ions/clusters and organic