Efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene-diimide-based zirconium-organic frameworks through linker installation
Abstract Redox-active metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have already demonstrated their unique advantages in the field of electrochromism over the past decade. However, controlling and modulating the electrochromic behaviors in specific MOFs remains a significant challenge, as most of the cases report...
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| author | Cha Li Hao Zhang Feifan Lang Yanghe Liu Lin Xu Xiao-Juan Xi Yang Li Jiandong Pang Hong-Cai Zhou Xian-He Bu |
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| description | Abstract Redox-active metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have already demonstrated their unique advantages in the field of electrochromism over the past decade. However, controlling and modulating the electrochromic behaviors in specific MOFs remains a significant challenge, as most of the cases reported so far are achieved by designing and constructing new MOFs. Herein, we design a redox-active Zr-MOF with coordination unsaturated pockets, termed NKM-908, based on a naphthalene diimide containing tetratopic carboxylate ligand. The fabricated NKM-908 thin film exhibits a reversible electrochromic behavior, showing a color change from basically colorless to light yellow and then to green. Remarkably, two forms of distinct and precise modulations to the electrochromic performance of NKM-908 are achieved through installations of linear auxiliary bitopic carboxylate linkers (TPDC-X) into the coordination unsaturated pockets, i.e. deepening the color and deriving new colors/shifting modes. This work is a successful attempt in tailoring the color change of electrochromic MOFs as required without synthesizing them from scratch. Considering the high efficiency and conveniency of this post-synthetic modification, such strategy opens up a versatile route in designing electrochromic materials, as well as facilely extending their potential towards practical applications. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-01ba886a8b424419ad069528dd4a423c2025-02-09T12:45:16ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232025-02-0116111110.1038/s41467-024-55473-7Efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene-diimide-based zirconium-organic frameworks through linker installationCha Li0Hao Zhang1Feifan Lang2Yanghe Liu3Lin Xu4Xiao-Juan Xi5Yang Li6Jiandong Pang7Hong-Cai Zhou8Xian-He Bu9School of Materials Science and Engineering, Smart Sensing Interdisciplinary Science Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Smart Sensing Interdisciplinary Science Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Smart Sensing Interdisciplinary Science Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Smart Sensing Interdisciplinary Science Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Smart Sensing Interdisciplinary Science Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai UniversityState Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Chemistry, Nankai UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Smart Sensing Interdisciplinary Science Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Smart Sensing Interdisciplinary Science Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai UniversityDepartment of Chemistry, Texas A&M UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Smart Sensing Interdisciplinary Science Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai UniversityAbstract Redox-active metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have already demonstrated their unique advantages in the field of electrochromism over the past decade. However, controlling and modulating the electrochromic behaviors in specific MOFs remains a significant challenge, as most of the cases reported so far are achieved by designing and constructing new MOFs. Herein, we design a redox-active Zr-MOF with coordination unsaturated pockets, termed NKM-908, based on a naphthalene diimide containing tetratopic carboxylate ligand. The fabricated NKM-908 thin film exhibits a reversible electrochromic behavior, showing a color change from basically colorless to light yellow and then to green. Remarkably, two forms of distinct and precise modulations to the electrochromic performance of NKM-908 are achieved through installations of linear auxiliary bitopic carboxylate linkers (TPDC-X) into the coordination unsaturated pockets, i.e. deepening the color and deriving new colors/shifting modes. This work is a successful attempt in tailoring the color change of electrochromic MOFs as required without synthesizing them from scratch. Considering the high efficiency and conveniency of this post-synthetic modification, such strategy opens up a versatile route in designing electrochromic materials, as well as facilely extending their potential towards practical applications.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55473-7 |
| spellingShingle | Cha Li Hao Zhang Feifan Lang Yanghe Liu Lin Xu Xiao-Juan Xi Yang Li Jiandong Pang Hong-Cai Zhou Xian-He Bu Efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene-diimide-based zirconium-organic frameworks through linker installation Nature Communications |
| title | Efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene-diimide-based zirconium-organic frameworks through linker installation |
| title_full | Efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene-diimide-based zirconium-organic frameworks through linker installation |
| title_fullStr | Efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene-diimide-based zirconium-organic frameworks through linker installation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene-diimide-based zirconium-organic frameworks through linker installation |
| title_short | Efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene-diimide-based zirconium-organic frameworks through linker installation |
| title_sort | efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene diimide based zirconium organic frameworks through linker installation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55473-7 |
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