Patterned growth of luminescent metal–organic framework films: a versatile electrochemically-assisted microwave deposition method.

Electrochemically-assisted microwave deposition technology, a facile method for the fabrication of luminescent metal–organic framework (LMOF) films, is presented herein. This method was further developed into a versatile method for preparing patterned LMOF films. The strategy based on this method can spatially locate microcrystals of MOFs on a surface, which provides great promise in anti-counterfeiting barcode applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]