Direct imaging of facet development during growth of single-crystal covalent organic frameworks
Qianxi Wang, Quan Wu, Yi He · 2025
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Description
Qianxi Wang, Quan Wu, and Yi He filmed in 2025 how the faces of a single crystal grow, frame by frame. Their subject was COF-300, a covalent organic framework whose crystals promise fine order and strong performance. A dark-field microscope watched seeds grow live. The share of one linker, terephthalaldehyde, in the mix proved to steer both seed shape and which faces grew.
Low and high linker levels sent growth down unlike paths, one ruled by speed and one by stability, yielding unlike crystal shapes. Shape then set how much a crystal flexed after soaking up solvent. The team ties face change to linker dose and offers shape rules for future crystal design.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Qianxi Wang, Quan Wu, Yi He |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |