Application RelevanceSupport assessment: High
Fe-HHB-w has higher modulus and hardness than Fe-HHB-o, Cu-HHB-w, Cu-BHT-w and reported traditional MOFs, supporting use in wear-resistant electronics.
Caveat: Mechanical comparison with literature MOFs depends on collected literature data in Figure S29.
SI p33 · Figure S29 discussion · Figure S29 · Linked to 6 structured results
CaveatSupport assessment: Medium
The conductivity improvement is not attributed to unintended NH3 doping because EDX detected no N in as-grown Fe-HHB-w, Cu-HHB-w and Cu-BHT-w, and post-treatment of Fe-HHB-o in NH3 did not improve conductivity.
Caveat: No numeric EDX detection limits are reported in the extracted text.
18191 and 18193 · Results and Discussion · Figures S4, S18, S23, S25 · Linked to 3 structured results
Phase AssignmentSupport assessment: High
Fe-HHB-w is assigned to a hexagonal Fe-HHB 2D Kagome lattice with AA stacking and face-on orientation.
Caveat: Structure assignment is based on GIWAXS, TEM/SAED/FFT and DFT modelling; no CIF was supplied.
18192 · Results and Discussion · Figures 3, S10-S15 · Linked to 4 structured results
Structure Property LinkSupport assessment: High
NH3-assisted CVD greatly improves Fe-HHB crystallinity, increasing domain area by about two orders of magnitude and conductivity from about 0.002 to about 3 S/cm.
Caveat: Domain-size values are approximate and partly microscopy-derived.
18191-18192 · Abstract; Results and Discussion · Figures 1-3, S9 · Linked to 4 structured results
Structure Property LinkSupport assessment: High
OPTP/Drude-Smith analysis attributes the higher Fe-HHB-w dc mobility to improved crystallinity, reduced grain-boundary scattering and slightly longer scattering time.
Caveat: Mobility is estimated from a Drude-Smith model and assumed effective mass.
18194 · Results and Discussion · Figure 4e-f · Linked to 6 structured results
Synthesis MechanismSupport assessment: High
The face-to-face inner tube configuration is important for high-quality Fe-HHB-w films; alternative reversed, equal-length and quartz-boat configurations give lower conductivities.
SI p7-8 · Figure S2 discussion · Figure S2 · Linked to 4 structured results
Synthesis MechanismSupport assessment: High
The NH3-assisted strategy generalises to Cu-HHB and Cu-BHT, increasing conductivity from about 51 to 113 S/cm and from about 595 to 905 S/cm, respectively.
Caveat: Cu-BHT synthesis recipe is only vaguely described because it follows a previous work not supplied with this assignment.
18193 · Results and Discussion · Figures S23-S26 · Linked to 4 structured results
Synthesis MechanismSupport assessment: High
NH3 improves CVD growth through ligand deprotonation and by acting as a competing coordination species that promotes reversible formation and breakage of metal-ligand bonds.
Caveat: The mechanistic assignment combines spectroscopy, treatment experiments and chemical rationale rather than direct in situ observation.
SI p28 · Figure S22 discussion · Figure S22 · Linked to 3 structured results
Transport MechanismSupport assessment: High
Fe-HHB-w shows thermally activated Arrhenius transport, whereas Fe-HHB-o follows variable-range hopping, consistent with higher disorder in the no-NH3 control.
Caveat: Fe-HHB-o VRH is reported as a model assignment; no activation-energy value is given for Fe-HHB-o.
18193-18194 · Results and Discussion · Figure 4b-c · Linked to 2 structured results