Thermal degradation of defective high-surface-area UiO-66 in different gaseous environments
Muhammad Athar, Przemysław Rzepka, Debora Thoeny, Marco Ranocchiari, Jeroen A. van Bokhoven
Abstract
) conditions. Upon complete thermal decomposition at 600 °C, the MOF produces predominantly tetragonal zirconia. TEM images of the thermally decomposed samples show that the shape of the original MOF crystal is maintained during the heating process in the inert and reductive environments, whereas under oxidative conditions, all of the carbon is burnt to carbon dioxide, leaving no carbon matrix as the support.
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Degradation (telecommunications)ZirconiumInertInert gasMaterials scienceThermalBET theoryChemical engineeringChemistryMetallurgyComposite materialCatalysisComputer scienceOrganic chemistryThermodynamicsTelecommunicationsPhysicsEngineeringMetal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and ApplicationsCatalytic Processes in Materials ScienceRadioactive element chemistry and processing