Researchers use vapor deposition to make covalent organic framework films

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-vapor-deposition-covalent-framework.html

"produce ordered 2D crystalline COFs fast, low-cost, scalable... control of sheet orientation, ensuring pore alignment, facilitating creation of high-quality membranems in <=20 minutes... vapor deposition temperatures up to ~644°F could be used to synthesize organic molecules... battery separators and organic transistors, semiconductor devices, sensors, filtration and desalination, drug delivery, catalytic processes"

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