Adsorption was chosen as the means to introduce silver ions into the ZIF-62 structure as it is one of the more straightforward methods to incorporate ions into porous structures. While some MOF encapsulation methods involve a one-pot in situ encapsulation during the synthesis of MOF, this method was not incorporated in this paper as the impact of silver ions on the formation of ZIF-62 during the normal synthesis route has not been studied well and will add complications which fall outside the scope of this study - which is to understand the role of silver ions towards the dynamics of ZIF-62 thermal behaviour. Methanol was also chosen as the adsorption medium, both to dissolve silver ions and to disperse ZIF-62 crystals, even though silver ions (from AgNO₃ for this study) are much more soluble in aqueous conditions. This is because ZIF-62 crystals are highly hydrophobic and will not disperse well in water. A less toxic alternative such as ethanol was not chosen due to the possibility of the formation of an explosive byproduct when reacted with AgNO_3, such as the highly explosive silver fulminate^[28]. The as-synthesized ZIF-62 particles were activated overnight before silver adsorption to ensure that the pores were effectively vacant to maximize the silver adsorption efficiency. The morphology of the crystal between pure and silver-loaded ZIF-62 glass at different benzimidazole - imidazole ratio as seen in Figure 2 also shows that there was no clear morphological change in the shape of the resulting crystals.