Solvent-Free Powder Synthesis and MOF-CVD Thin Films of the Mesoporous Metal-Organic Framework MAF-6

T.S., R.V. and I.S. thank the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) for SB-PhD and postdoctoral fellowships (1S53316N, 1S00917N and 12L5417N). R.A. acknowledges the funding from the European Research Council (No. 716472, acronym: VAPORE) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) for funding in the research projects G083016N, G0E6319N and 1501618N and the infrastructure project G0H0716N. We acknowledge the Elettra Synchrotron Trieste for allocation of beamtime and thank Luisa Barba and Nicola Demitri for assis-tance in using beamline XRD1. We acknowledge the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility for provision of synchrotron radia-tion facilities and we would like to thank Oleg Konovalov and Andrey Chumakov for assistance in using beamline ID10, and Dipanjan Banerjee for assistance in using the Dutch-Belgian (DUBBLE) beamline BM26. We acknowledge Benedikt Schrode and Sabina Rodríguez Hermida for assistance with the in situ PXRD experiment and data processing. PALS measurements are based upon experiments performed at the PLEPS instrument op-erated by FRM-II at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Garching, Germany. The authors would like to thank Diamond Light Source for beamtime (proposal EE17279), and the staff of beamline I15-1, in particular Philip Chater, with data collection and treatment. Thomas D. Bennett is acknowledged for useful insights in total scattering data processing and analysis. Use of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory was supported by the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.