Abstract
The selective capture of carbon dioxide in porous materials has potential for the storage and purification of fuel and flue gases. However, adsorption capacities under dynamic conditions are often insufficient for practical applications, and strategies to enhance CO2–host selectivity are required. The unique partially interpenetrated metal–organic framework NOTT-202 represents a new class of dynamic material that undergoes pronounced framework phase transition on desolvation. We report temperature-dependent adsorption/desorption hysteresis in desolvated NOTT-202a that responds selectively to CO2. The CO2 isotherm shows three steps in the adsorption profile at 195 K, and stepwise filling of pores generated within the observed partially interpenetrated structure has been modelled by grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. Adsorption of N2, CH4, O2, Ar and H2 exhibits reversible isotherms without hysteresis under the same conditions, and this allows capture of gases at high pressure, but selectively leaves CO2 trapped in the nanopores at low pressure.
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S.Y. thanks EPSRC for a PhD Plus Fellowship and the Leverhulme Trust for an Early Career Fellowship. We thank EPSRC (UKSHEC) and the University of Nottingham for support and financial support of X-ray equipment, STFC for awarding access to Station 9.8 of the Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source, Diamond Light Source for beam time on Beamlines I11 and I19, and J. Potter for technical help at Diamond Beamline I11. We thank J. Sun (University of Stockholm) for helpful discussions on powder diffraction and A. Linden (University of Zürich) for discussions on the structural analysis of NOTT-202. N.R.C. gratefully acknowledges receipt of a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. E.B. gratefully acknowledges financial support from an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship (EP/G005060). M. Schröder gratefully acknowledges receipt of a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award and an ERC Advanced Grant.
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S.Y., X.L., K.M.T., M. Schröder: syntheses, characterization, measurements and analysis of adsorption isotherms. E.B. and M. Suyetin: grand canonical Monte Carlo modelling. S.Y., A.J.B., C.C.T. and J.E.P.: synchrotron X-ray powder data analysis. S.Y., A.J.B., W.L., D.R.A. and P.J.R.: single-crystal X-ray structural data analyses. S.Y., A.J.B., P.H., N.R.C., K.M.T. and M. Schröder: overall design, direction and supervision of project. All authors contributed to the writing of the paper.
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Yang, S., Lin, X., Lewis, W. et al. A partially interpenetrated metal–organic framework for selective hysteretic sorption of carbon dioxide. Nature Mater 11, 710–716 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3343
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