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SUBMITTER: Li J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7668537 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20201030 45
Structural transitions of host systems in response to guest binding dominate many chemical processes. We report an unprecedented type of structural flexibility within a meta-rigid material, MFM-520, which exhibits a reversible periodic-to-aperiodic structural transition resulting from a drastic distortion of a [ZnO<sub>4</sub>N] node controlled by the specific host-guest interactions. The aperiodic crystal structure of MFM-520 has no three-dimensional (3D) lattice periodicity but shows translati ...[more]