On‐Water Surface Synthesis of 2D Conjugated Metal–Organic Framework Films With Controllable Layer Orientation Enabling High‐Performance Chemiresistive Sensing
Jianjun Zhang, Víctor García‐López, Yutong Wu, Shuai Fu, Yucong Chen, Arsh S. Hazrah, Petko Petkov, Mike Hambsch, Feng Ni, Alina Müller, Ye Yang, Leif Riemenschneider, Shirong Huang, Albertus Mattheüs Sandee, Yilv Guo, David Silva‐Brea, Jan‐Ole Joswig, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Thomas Heine, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Mischa Bonn, Zhiyong Wang, Xinliang Feng · 2026
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Jianjun Zhang leads a twenty-three-author team growing films of a conductive metal-organic framework on water. The team steers whether the sheets lie flat or stand on edge. That orientation decides how well charge moves through them. The nickel-based framework pairs conductivity with built-in pores, suiting it to chemical sensors, but only if layers align usefully over large areas. A surfactant skin on the water programmes orientation through a tug between electric attraction and hydrogen bonding.
Imaging and scattering confirmed clean face-on and edge-on films across centimetre scales, and face-on films carried charge along the layers far better. Gas sensors built from face-on films answered ammonia with a huge signal at modest levels and detected traces far below previous framework sensors, all at room temperature. The authors establish water-surface synthesis as a dial for orientation.
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| CREATOR | Jianjun Zhang, Víctor García‐López, Yutong Wu, Shuai Fu, Yucong Chen, Arsh S. Hazrah, Petko Petkov, Mike Hambsch, Feng Ni, Alina Müller, Ye Yang, Leif Riemenschneider, Shirong Huang, Albertus Mattheüs Sandee, Yilv Guo, David Silva‐Brea, Jan‐Ole Joswig, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Thomas Heine, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Mischa Bonn, Zhiyong Wang, Xinliang Feng |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40768 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |