Kanagarajan, Selvaraju
- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research article2024Peer reviewedOpen access
Bells and Whistles on Fertilizers: Molecular Hands to Hang Nanoporous Foliar Fertilizer Reservoirs
Kaur, Kamaljit; Chandel, Mahima; Sagar, Poonam; Sahu, Bandana Kumari; Ladhi, Ritu; Rajamanickam, Parameswaran; Aich, Pooja; Khatri, Madhu; Kanagarajan, Selvaraju; Singhal, Nitin Kumar; Singh, Monika; Shanmugam, Vijaya Kumar
Abstract
Porous materials are highly explored platforms for fertilizer delivery. Among porous materials, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an important class of coordination polymers in which metal ions and organic electron donors as linkers are assembled to form crystalline structures with stable nanoporosity. Selected amino acids were inherently found to have the capacity to hold the leaf cuticle. Hence, MOF synthesis was attempted in the presence of amino acids, which can act as surface terminators and can assist as hands to hold to the leaf for a controlled nutrient supply. By serendipity, the amino acids were found to act as modulators, resulting in well-stabilized porous MOF structures with iron metal nodes, which are often noted to be unstable. Thus, the composite, i.e., (MOF@aa) MOF modulated with amino acids, has efficient nutrient-feeding ability through the foliar route when compared to the control.
Published in
ACS Omega
2024, volume: 9, number: 24, pages: 25870–25878
Publisher: AMER CHEMICAL SOC
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Polymer Chemistry
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c09895
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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/130900