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Title: Balancing volumetric and gravimetric uptake in highly porous materials for clean energy

Journal Article · · Science
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  1. Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
  2. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA.
  3. Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.; Future Mobility Research Department, Toyota Research Institute of North America, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA.
  4. NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA.
  5. Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.; Institute for Molecular Design and Synthesis, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, China.; School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
  6. Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

A huge challenge facing scientists is the development of adsorbent materials that exhibit ultrahigh porosity but maintain balance between gravimetric and volumetric surface areas for the onboard storage of hydrogen and methane gas—alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. Here we report the simulation-motivated synthesis of ultraporous metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) based on metal trinuclear clusters, namely, NU-1501-M (M = Al or Fe). Relative to other ultraporous MOFs, NU-1501-Al exhibits concurrently a high gravimetric Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) area of 7310 m2g-1and a volumetric BET area of 2060 m2cm-3while satisfying the four BET consistency criteria. The high porosity and surface area of this MOF yielded impressive gravimetric and volumetric storage performances for hydrogen and methane: NU-1501-Al surpasses the gravimetric methane storage U.S. Department of Energy target (0.5 g g-1) with an uptake of 0.66 g g-1[262 cm3(standard temperature and pressure, STP) cm-3] at 100 bar/270 K and a 5- to 100-bar working capacity of 0.60 g g-1[238 cm3(STP) cm-3] at 270 K; it also shows one of the best deliverable hydrogen capacities (14.0 weight %, 46.2 g liter-1) under a combined temperature and pressure swing (77 K/100 bar → 160 K/5 bar).

Research Organization:
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Oak Ridge Associated Univ., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
DOE Contract Number:
EE0008816; SC0014664
OSTI ID:
1799552
Journal Information:
Science, Vol. 368, Issue 6488; ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher:
AAAS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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