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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Porous materials exhibit both rigid and flexible behaviors, similar to conventional solids.
  • Flexible pores in these materials have been shown to possess elastic properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate that flexible pores can exhibit plastic behavior, not just elastic.
  • To fine-tune the energy landscape of porous frameworks to achieve plastic behavior.
  • To enable optimized host-guest recognition for target guests through reversible pore-shaping.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic variation of ligand side groups to tune hydrogen-bonding ability and steric hindrance.
  • Investigating the energy differences and barriers between metastable states of porous frameworks.
  • Applying high pressures of target guests to induce pore structure transformation.

Main Results:

  • Achieved plastic behavior in flexible pores by modifying ligand side groups.
  • Demonstrated reversible pore-shaping, allowing transformation to target structures under guest pressure and retention of shape after guest removal.
  • Reported up to a 6-fold increase in adsorption selectivity and a 9-fold increase in purification productivity for CO2 capture and methane upgrading.
  • Observed inversion of CO2/C2H2 selectivity using a single plastic-pore adsorbent.

Conclusions:

  • The realization of plastic pores offers a novel mechanism for on-demand switching of adsorption and separation functions.
  • Plastic-pore adsorbents provide optimized performance for gas separation and purification applications.
  • This work opens new avenues for designing advanced porous materials with switchable functionalities.