Emily Meekel

Jul 23, 2024 | nature.com | Emily Meekel |Ben Slater |Claire Hobday

AbstractBy virtue of their open network structures and low densities, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are soft materials that exhibit elastic instabilities at low applied stresses. The conventional strategy for improving elastic stability is to increase the connectivity of the underlying MOF network, which necessarily increases the material density and reduces the porosity.

Oct 27, 2023 | pubs.rsc.org | Emily Meekel |Thomas C. Nicholas |Ben Slater

Torsional flexibility in zinc–benzenedicarboxylate metal–organic frameworks† We explore the role and nature of torsional flexibility of carboxylate–benzene links in the structural chemistry of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) based on Zn and benzenedicarboxlyate (bdc) linkers. A particular motivation is to understand the extent to which such flexibility is important in stabilising the unusual topologically aperiodic phase known as TRUMOF-1.

Jan 26, 2023 | science.org | Aereas Aung |James Albert |David M. Lapola |Emily Meekel

LATEST NEWS Assembling aperiodic crystalsA metal-organic framework (MOF) has been made that contains an ordered lattice of connecting nodes but a network of aperiodically arranged linkers. Meekel et al. extended to MOFs the idea of Truchet tiles, in which a plane is covered with square tiles decorated with nonrotationally symmetric patterns to form aperiodic patterns.