Creation of complex composites from Metal-Organic Frameworks with pure metal nanoparticles under electronic irradiation

Abstract

Abstract Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are unique materials with high porosity and flexibility utilized widely in chemistry and physics. However, they could be used as initial materials for creation new types of composites with nanoparticles. The creation of NPs inside MOFs crystals is related with different types of outer stimuli (temperature, light, and electron irradiation). Here we report about a new approach of the creation complex composites from MOFs’ crystals using the electron irradiation of the transmission electron microscope (TEM) as a highly precise method for the growing of different types of Ni and Cu nanoparticles and discuss about the dynamical process of NPs growth using the classical kinetic theory.