Synthesis of 2D Porous Crystalline Materials in Simulated Microgravity

To date, crystallization studies conducted in space laboratories, which are prohibitively costly and unsuitable to most research laboratories, have shown the valuable eects of microgravity during crystal growth and morphogenesis. Herein, an easy and highly ecient method is shown to achieve space-like experimentation conditions on Earth employing custom-made microfluidic devices to fabricate D porous crystalline molecular frameworks. It is con-firmed that experimentation under these simulated microgravity conditions has unprecedented eects on the orientation, compactness and crack-free generation of D porous crystalline molecular frameworks as well as in their integration and crystal morphogenesis. It is believed that this work will pro-vide a new “playground” to chemists, physicists, and materials scientists that desire to process unprecedented D functional materials and devices.