Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Amirjalayer, Saeed
• Schmid, Rochus

Titel

Influence of Pore Dimension on the Host–Guest Interaction in Metal–Organic Frameworks

Ist Teil von

• Journal of physical chemistry. C, 2016-12, Vol.120 (48), p.27319-27327

Ort / Verlag

American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Atomistic simulations were performed in order to investigated the effect of pore dimension on the interaction of guest molecules with the inner surface of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). In these systems, which only differ in the metric of their open structure, the chemical nature is conserved, and less impact on the host–guest interaction is expected compared to chemically funcionalized MOFs. However, by performing molecular dynamics simulations of benzene loaded MOF-5 derivatives (IRMOFs), which differ just in the length of the organic linker, it can be shown that impacts are present. The influence of the soft-modification can be explained only by a detailed analysis of the free energy topology and the diffusion mechanism. Note that the calculated self-diffusivity of benzene D self shows no change with respect to the elongation of the linkers. The apparent contradiction between the macroscopic observable D self and the microscopic free energy landscape could be resolved by introducing a hopping model for the diffusion process and subsequent Monte Carlo simulations. This study demonstrates the importance of atomistic simulations and the need to understand the host–guest interaction in MOFs in a multiscale fashion.