Uniform and directional growth of centimeter-sized single crystals of cyclodextrin-based metal organic frameworks

Although macroscopically-sized MOF crystals have proven of interest for efficient chromatographic separations, information processing, or optoelectronic devices, growing really large crystals has proven problematic. A growth-and-reseeding method can now produce MOF monocrystals ca. 1 cm 3 in volume vs. at most ca. 0.025 cm 3 by prior methods.