Shuangbing Han

TL;DR: This work has shown that the apparent acid dissociation constant (pK(a)) of the NP-immobilized ligands lies between that of free ligands and ligands self-assembled on a flat surface.

TL;DR: Catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles in a hydrosilylation reaction is controlled by irradiation with UV or visible light, and the particles redisperse and catalysis can proceed.

TL;DR: Millimeter-sized single MOF-5 crystals are used as "chromatographic columns" to effectively separate mixtures of organic dyes due to the nanoscopic pore dimensions and the molecular-level interactions between the migrating molecules and the MOF scaffold.

TL;DR: A procedure in which reaction-diffusion processes inside the MOF crystals mediate the deposition of NPs either in a uniform or in a location-specific fashion, with the latter leading to the formation of core/shell architectures (which are of interest in the context of multistep catalysis).

TL;DR: In the photoconductive MOFs, the effective diffusion coefficients of electrons can match the typical values of small molecules diffusing through MOFs; this property can open new vistas for the development of MOF electrodes and, in a wider context, of electroactive and light-harvesting MOFs.