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Title: Computation-Ready, Experimental Metal–Organic Frameworks: A Tool To Enable High-Throughput Screening of Nanoporous Crystals

Journal Article · · Chemistry of Materials
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/cm502594j· OSTI ID:1477221
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  1. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
  2. Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Computational Research Division
  4. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Department of Chemistry; Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). Warsaw University of Technology
  5. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States). NIST Center for Neutron Research; Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States). Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  6. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Department of Chemistry; King Abdulaziz Univ., Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

We report that experimentally refined crystal structures for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) often include solvent molecules and partially occupied or disordered atoms. This creates a major impediment to applying high-throughput computational screening to MOFs. To address this problem, we have constructed a database of MOF structures that are derived from experimental data but are immediately suitable for molecular simulations. The Computation-Ready, Experimental (CoRE) MOF database contains over 4,700 porous structures with publically available atomic coordinates. Important physical and chemical properties including the surface area and pore dimensions are reported for these structures. To demonstrate the utility of the database, we performed grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations of methane adsorption on all structures in the CoRE MOF database. Lastly, we investigated the structural properties of the CoRE MOFs that govern methane storage capacity and found that these relationships agree well with those derived recently from a large database of hypothetical MOFs.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States). Nanoporous Materials Genome Center
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
Contributing Organization:
Quest high-performance computing facility at Northwestern University; Northwestern University Information Technology
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-12ER16362; SC0008688
OSTI ID:
1477221
Journal Information:
Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 26, Issue 21; Related Information: Chung, Y. G., Camp, J., Haranczyk, M., Sikora, B. J., Bury, W., Krungleviciute, V., ... & Snurr, R. Q. (2014). Supplementary Material for Computation-ready, experimental metal–organic frameworks: A tool to enable high-throughput screening of nanoporous crystals Table S1-12. Chemistry of Materials, 26(21), 6185-6192.;Chung, Y. G., Camp, J., Haranczyk, M., Sikora, B. J., Bury, W., Krungleviciute, V., ... & Snurr, R. Q. (2014). Supplementary Material for Computation-ready, experimental metal–organic frameworks: A tool to enable high-throughput screening of nanoporous crystals Section S1-6. Chemistry of Materials, 26(21), 6185-6192.;; ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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