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    Meniscus-Guided Control of Supersaturation for the Crystallization of High Quality Metal Organic Framework Thin Films
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    • Jeong-Chan Lee
      Jeong-Chan Lee
      Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 34141 Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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    • Jin-Oh Kim
      Jin-Oh Kim
      Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 34141 Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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    • Ho-Jun Lee
      Ho-Jun Lee
      Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 34141 Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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    • Byungha Shin
      Byungha Shin
      Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 34141 Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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    • Steve Park*
      Steve Park
      Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 34141 Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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    Herein, meniscus-guided crystallization is introduced as a means to grow high quality metal organic framework (MOF) thin films. A meniscus was formed between a target substrate and a coating blade, and by adjusting various parameters such as substrate temperature and coating speed, supersaturation was precisely controlled, through which the crystallization process was finely tuned. Consequently, a densely packed intergrown MOF thin film with thickness tunability down to 450 nm was demonstrated. The individual crystals exhibited monodispersity in size. Interestingly, the use of a microstructured coating blade resulted in the change of crystal shape, attributed to the supersaturation-induced kinetically driven crystallization process. Our film growth process is large-area scalable, uses a miniscule amount of solution, and has substrate versatility. Such an insight and demonstration of MOF thin-film growth via meniscus-guided crystallization will be highly useful for the development of various MOF thin-film-based devices in the future.

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    • Figures S1–S10: SEM images showing the difference in packing density of HKUST-1 with increasing substrate temperature; nitrogen physisorption data of HKUST-1 fabricated by coating at the substrate temperature of 150 °C; SEM images and XRD patterns of MGC-processed MOF-5 thin film; surface roughness profile measurement of MOF thin film; methods for quantifying the crystal size; top-view optical microscopy image of the contact line sinusoidal curves generated by using a microstructured blade; difference in surface coverage of the MOF thin film generated by using a microstructured blade and planar blade; fabrication process of the MOF film-based microfluidic chip; XRD patterns of Fe3O4 nanoparticles and Fe3O4/HKUST-1 composite thin film; and magnetization measurement by applying magnetic field on Fe3O4/HKUST-1 composite thin film (PDF)

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