American Institute of Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 15(143), p. 154505
DOI: 10.1063/1.4933308
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In this work we examine the use of metal-organic framework (MOF) systems as host materials for the investigation of glassy dynamics in confined geometry. We investigate the confinement of the molecular glass former glycerol in three MFU-type MOFs with different pore sizes and study the dynamics of the confined liquid via dielectric spectroscopy. In accord with previous reports on confined glass formers, we find different degrees of deviations from bulk behavior depending on pore size, demonstrating that MOFs are well-suited host systems for confinement investigations. ; Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures + 2 pages, 3 figures in Supplemental Material