Unravelling surface and interfacial structures of a metal-organic framework by transmission electron microscopy

Nature Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 532-536

  Zhu, Yihan ^a   Ciston, Jim ^b   Zheng, Bin ^c   Miao, Xiaohe ^a   Czarnik, Cory ^d   Pan, Yichang ^a   Sougrat, Rachid ^a   Lai, Zhiping ^a   Hsiung, Chia En ^a   Yao, Kexin ^a   Pinnau, Ingo ^a   Pan, Ming ^d   Han, Yu ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d GATAN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COHERENT INTERFACE; DIFFRACTION TECHNIQUES; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; INTERFACIAL CAVITY; INTERFACIAL STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; SURFACE TERMINATION;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 85014085401     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4852     Document Type: Article

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