Li, Fan;
Erkal, Turan Selman;
Li, Haizhao;
Zhang, Mengru;
Sicard, François;
Yücesan, Gündoğ;
Hanna, Gabriel;
(2023)
Selective Water Transport in an Alanine-Functionalized Metal–Organic Framework: A Computational Study.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
, 127
(34)
pp. 17109-17118.
10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c02979.
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Abstract
Applications of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) functionalized with biomolecules have primarily focused on the use of these frameworks for bioimaging, catalysis, chiral separation, nanomotors, and drug delivery. However, their use in the design of artificial water channels (AWCs) has yet to be explored. In this work, we computationally explore the performance of a zwitterionic alanine-functionalized Ni-CPO-27 MOF as an AWC. Using density functional theory (DFT) calculations and equilibrium/nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, the stability, water permeability, and ion selectivity of the proposed AWC are studied. The DFT calculations predict that zwitterionic alanine binds to the coordinatively unsaturated Ni sites almost twofold stronger compared to water. Using the quantum theory of atoms in molecules, it is also found that the zwitterionic alanine molecules are further stabilized through hydrogen bonding between their carboxylate (COO–) and amino (NH3+) groups. Nonequilibrium MD simulations show that the proposed AWC possesses a high osmotic water permeability of 2.2 ± 0.3 × 10–15 cm3/s/channel, which lies between that observed in aquaporin-0 and aquaporin-1 proteins, while completely excluding Na+ and Cl– ions from the channel. The free energies associated with the water and ion transport show that fast water transport may be attributed to the relatively low free energy barriers for water in the channel, whereas the ion exclusion is due to large free energy barriers that the ions cannot overcome even under 100 MPa of applied pressure. By using a crystalline material, the proposed design of an amino acid-functionalized MOF-based AWC represents a departure from previously developed AWCs, which rely on the self-assembly of curated molecules in lipid bilayers or polymer matrices and are susceptible to long-term stability issues.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Selective Water Transport in an Alanine-Functionalized Metal–Organic Framework: A Computational Study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c02979 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c02979 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This publication is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Free energy, Ions, Metal organic frameworks, Molecules, Noncovalent interactions |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Arts and Sciences (BASc) |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10175972 |
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