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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Chemical Engineering

Background:

  • Understanding metal-organic framework (MOF) self-assembly is key to optimizing synthesis and reducing experimental costs.
  • Atomistic simulations offer molecular insights but face limitations in scale, concentration, and stoichiometry.
  • Bridging the gap between atomistic detail and system size is crucial for accurate MOF formation modeling.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel methodology for deriving reactive coarse-grained (CG) force fields for MOF self-assembly.
  • To apply this methodology to the archetypal zeolitic-imidazolate framework ZIF-8, creating the nb-CG-ZIF-FF force field.
  • To validate the CG force field's ability to reproduce key structural features of ZIF-8 nucleation and growth.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the multiscale coarse graining (MS-CG) method to derive reactive force fields.
  • Developed a CG force field (nb-CG-ZIF-FF) that learns connectivity from atomistic simulations without explicit bonds.
  • Applied the force field to simulate bulk ZIF-8 and prenucleation species, analyzing Zn coordination and ring formation.

Main Results:

  • The nb-CG-ZIF-FF force field quantitatively reproduces bulk crystalline ZIF-8 features.
  • It accurately captures the structural evolution of prenucleation species, including Zn n-fold coordination populations.
  • The model effectively captures the range of ring structures formed during synthesis but shows limitations in reproducing ring population trends.

Conclusions:

  • The developed reactive CG force field fitting approach is applicable to various MOFs.
  • This methodology opens new avenues for modeling MOF formation, decomposition, defect dynamics, and phase transitions.
  • Enables more efficient and accurate computational exploration of MOF synthesis pathways.