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Postsynthesis Annealing of MOF-5 Remarkably Enhances the Framework Structural Stability and CO2 Uptake

Gadipelli, Srinivas; Guo, Zhengxiao; (2014) Postsynthesis Annealing of MOF-5 Remarkably Enhances the Framework Structural Stability and CO2 Uptake. Chemistry of Materials , 26 pp. 6333-6338. 10.1021/cm502399q. Green open access

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Abstract

Structural stability and porosity characteristics of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are of great importance for practical applications, such as gas sorption/storage and catalytic support. By means of a simple and effective method of postsynthesis thermal annealing below its framework decomposition temperature, the annealed MOF-5 shows unexpectedly high CO2 uptake up to 2 mmol g–1 at 25 °C and 1 bar, which is more than double the capacity of the untreated counterpart (0.8 mmol g–1). Structural characterizations reveal that the annealed MOFs are very active with local vacancy sites due to partial decomposition of the bridging carboxylates of the framework linker. The annealed MOFs also show high stability for cyclic CO2 uptake and air/moisture. Such an approach may be effectively applied to other MOF structures or MOF based membranes to enhance their gas uptake or separation.

Type: Article
Title: Postsynthesis Annealing of MOF-5 Remarkably Enhances the Framework Structural Stability and CO2 Uptake
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1021/cm502399q
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm502399q
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1455715
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