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Microfluidic-based Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs): A Tool for Continuous Production of COF Fibers and Direct Printing on a Surface
Published on: July 10, 2017
Molecular simulation study of the stepped behaviors of gas adsorption in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks
1Laboratory of Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
Abstract:
In this work, grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations were performed to investigate the adsorption behaviors of three important gases (CO2, CH4 and H2) in two two-dimensional (2D) covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with different pore sizes. The simulation results show that stepped behavior is common in gas adsorption in 2D COFs, and multilayer formation is likely to be the underlying mechanism. For CO2 adsorption in 2D COFs, stepped phenomena easily occur, and the electrostatic interactions between CO2-CO2 molecules play a dominant role, while, within the temperature range studied, no stepped behaviors were found in isotherms for H2 adsorption in 2D COFs because of the too weak interactions in the systems. In addition, this work demonstrates that the stepped behaviors are highly affected by temperature, pore size, and the interaction strengths between adsorbates as well as those between adsorbates and adsorbents.
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