The electron beam-induced degradation of ZIF-L, another ZIF structure, was studied using fading of Bragg spot intensities in electron diffraction (ED) pattern and shifts in bond energies using electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). They reported a two-stage degradation process when exposed to the electron beam: structural damage to a full amorphization of ZIF-L and, second, a molecular breakdown of the organic 2methyl imidazole linker . The mechanism of damage to unit cells and the loss of crystallinity during the first stage of structural damage has not been studied further.