Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 13(52), p. 2792-2794, 2016
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc09780k
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Ionic transport (for applications in nanofluidics or membranes) and "ionic diode" phenomena in a zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8) are investigated by directly growing the framework from aqueous Zn 2+ and 2-methylimidazole as an "asymmetric plug" into a 20 μm diameter pore in a ca. 6 μm thin poly-ethylene-terephthalate (PET) film.