Vapour-Phase Deposition of Oriented Copper Dicarboxylate Metal-Organic Framework Thin Films

T.S. and I.S. thank the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) for a SB-PhD fellowship and postdoctoral fellowship (1S53316N and 12L5417N). R.A. and P.F. acknowledge the funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreements n° 716472 and 771834, acronyms: VAPORE and POPCRYSTAL), and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) for funding in the projects G083016N, 1529618N and 1501618N. We acknowledge the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility for provision of synchrotron radiation facilities and we would like to thank Oleg Konovalov and Andrey Chumakov for assistance in using beamline ID10. The authors are grateful to Steven De Feyter for access to AFM instrumentation and to Max L. Tietze for XPS data processing.