ETD

• crystal structure
• electron diffraction
• metal-organic framework

This thesis work is focused on synthesis and crystal structure characterization of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). We exploited solvothermal synthesis in order to replicate the reference Zn-btca and Mn-btca MOF structures. Successively, we tried metal ion substitution of the synthesised samples with the aim of obtaining bimetallic MOFs. We also tried to synthesise new monometallic and bimetallic MOF structures with solvothermal and mechanochemical synthetic approaches. We used Powder X-Ray Diffraction (PXRD), Electron Diffraction (ED) and Energy Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) to characterize the obtained samples from a structural and compositional point of view.