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Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Metal-organic Frameworks
Published on: September 5, 2014
Unveiling the mechanism of selective gate-driven diffusion of CO2 over N2 in MFU-4 metal-organic framework
German Sastre1, Johan van den Bergh, Freek Kapteijn
1Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica UPV-CSIC, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain. gsastre@itq.upv.es.
Abstract:
The metal-organic framework MFU-4 shows preferential adsorption of CO2 over N2. This cannot be explained in terms of pore size only. Computational modelling suggests that the unique structure and flexibility of its small 8Cl-cube pore shows a unique gate-diffusion behaviour with different responses to CO2 and N2.
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