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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5176
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- E.P.S.R.C. [EP/G004528/2]
- E.R.C. [279705]
- Swedish Research Council (VR)
- Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg (KAW) Foundation [3DEM-NATUR]
- GENCI-IDRIS [i2014087069]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G004528/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G004528/2] Funding Source: UKRI
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Throughout much of condensed matter science, correlated disorder is a key to material function. While structural and compositional defects are known to exist within a variety of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the prevailing understanding is that these defects are only ever included in a random manner. Here we show-using a combination of diffuse scattering, electron microscopy, anomalous X-ray scattering and pair distribution function measurements-that correlations between defects can in fact be introduced and controlled within a hafnium terephthalate MOF. The nanoscale defect structures that emerge are an analogue of correlated Schottky vacancies in rocksalt-structured transition metal monoxides and have implications for storage, transport, optical and mechanical responses. Our results suggest how the diffraction behaviour of some MOFs might be reinterpreted, and establish a strategy of exploiting correlated nanoscale disorder as a targetable and desirable motif in MOF design.
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