Pore-Steric Photocatalytic Enhancement in Isoreticular Rod-Packed Titania Metal-Organic Frameworks

Author(s):  
Demetrius Vazquez ◽  
Matthew W. Logan ◽  
Zhihengyu Chen ◽  
Nijamudheen Abdulrahiman ◽  
Wesley Newsome ◽  
...  

Titania metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are attractive materials for noble-metal-free heterogeneous photocatalysis because of their tunable photoredox activity. In this work, we present the effect of decreased pore-steric interference in photocatalysis by creating a new series of MOFs via isoreticular expansion. These new UCFMOFs pack in a hex rod net, are composed of 1-dimensional titania secondary building units and organic links of increased metrics, exhibiting pore apertures with expanded sizes and increased photocatalytic kinetics. Powder based crystallography, in tandem with local structure, gas adsorption, and DFT studies, enabled elucidation of their crystal, steric, and electronic structures that explain their increased photocatalytic efficiency towards mild oxidation of organic probes.<br>

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demetrius Vazquez ◽  
Matthew W. Logan ◽  
Zhihengyu Chen ◽  
Nijamudheen Abdulrahiman ◽  
Wesley Newsome ◽  
...  

Titania metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are attractive materials for noble-metal-free heterogeneous photocatalysis because of their tunable photoredox activity. In this work, we present the effect of decreased pore-steric interference in photocatalysis by creating a new series of MOFs via isoreticular expansion. These new UCFMOFs pack in a hex rod net, are composed of 1-dimensional titania secondary building units and organic links of increased metrics, exhibiting pore apertures with expanded sizes and increased photocatalytic kinetics. Powder based crystallography, in tandem with local structure, gas adsorption, and DFT studies, enabled elucidation of their crystal, steric, and electronic structures that explain their increased photocatalytic efficiency towards mild oxidation of organic probes.<br>


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (13) ◽  
pp. 6962-6969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Zhao ◽  
Wen-Wen Dong ◽  
Ya-Pan Wu ◽  
Ye-Nan Wang ◽  
Chao Wang ◽  
...  

Two porous MOFs based on linear [Co3(COO)6] and paddlewheel [Cu2(COO)4] SBUs, showing high visible-light-driven photocatalytic efficiency for the degradation of RhB and high uptake capacities for CO2 and H2.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Raza ◽  
Arni Sturluson ◽  
Cory Simon ◽  
Xiaoli Fern

Virtual screenings can accelerate and reduce the cost of discovering metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for their applications in gas storage, separation, and sensing. In molecular simulations of gas adsorption/diffusion in MOFs, the adsorbate-MOF electrostatic interaction is typically modeled by placing partial point charges on the atoms of the MOF. For the virtual screening of large libraries of MOFs, it is critical to develop computationally inexpensive methods to assign atomic partial charges to MOFs that accurately reproduce the electrostatic potential in their pores. Herein, we design and train a message passing neural network (MPNN) to predict the atomic partial charges on MOFs under a charge neutral constraint. A set of ca. 2,250 MOFs labeled with high-fidelity partial charges, derived from periodic electronic structure calculations, serves as training examples. In an end-to-end manner, from charge-labeled crystal graphs representing MOFs, our MPNN machine-learns features of the local bonding environments of the atoms and learns to predict partial atomic charges from these features. Our trained MPNN assigns high-fidelity partial point charges to MOFs with orders of magnitude lower computational cost than electronic structure calculations. To enhance the accuracy of virtual screenings of large libraries of MOFs for their adsorption-based applications, we make our trained MPNN model and MPNN-charge-assigned computation-ready, experimental MOF structures publicly available.<br>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Sapnik ◽  
Duncan Johnstone ◽  
Sean M. Collins ◽  
Giorgio Divitini ◽  
Alice Bumstead ◽  
...  

<p>Defect engineering is a powerful tool that can be used to tailor the properties of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). Here, we incorporate defects through ball milling to systematically vary the porosity of the giant pore MOF, MIL-100 (Fe). We show that milling leads to the breaking of metal–linker bonds, generating more coordinatively unsaturated metal sites, and ultimately causes amorphisation. Pair distribution function analysis shows the hierarchical local structure is partially</p><p>retained, even in the amorphised material. We find that the solvent toluene stabilises the MIL-100 (Fe) framework against collapse and leads to a substantial rentention of porosity over the non-stabilised material.</p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyao Liu ◽  
Yunling Liu

ZMOFs are a subset of MOFs that exhibit zeolite-like topologies. Using molecular building block strategy, many ZMOFs with high stability and excellent performance can be rationally designed and synthesized using different secondary building units.


2020 ◽  
Vol 124 (49) ◽  
pp. 26801-26813
Author(s):  
Dayton J. Vogel ◽  
Zachary R. Lee ◽  
Caitlin A. Hanson ◽  
Susan E. Henkelis ◽  
Caris M. Smith ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (10) ◽  
pp. 3371-3381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Yan ◽  
Michal Juríček ◽  
François-Xavier Coudert ◽  
Nicolaas A. Vermeulen ◽  
Sergio Grunder ◽  
...  

ChemSusChem ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1543-1553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Chanut ◽  
Sandrine Bourrelly ◽  
Bogdan Kuchta ◽  
Christian Serre ◽  
Jong-San Chang ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (14) ◽  
pp. 3003-3006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linyi Bai ◽  
Binbin Tu ◽  
Yi Qi ◽  
Qiang Gao ◽  
Dong Liu ◽  
...  

Incorporating supramolecular recognition units, crown ether rings, into metal–organic frameworks enables the docking of metal ions through complexation for enhanced performance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (14) ◽  
pp. 4757-4764
Author(s):  
Yan Yan Li ◽  
Dong Luo ◽  
Kun Wu ◽  
Xiao-Ping Zhou

This review article summarizes the assembly, structures, and topologies of gyroidal metal–organic frameworks. Their applications in gas adsorption, catalysis, sensors, and luminescent materials are also discussed in detail.


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