Tunable Porosity through Cooperative Diffusion in a Multicomponent Porous Molecular Crystal
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- 作者：Rex Manurung ; Daniel Holden ; Marcin Miklitz ; Linjiang Chen ; Tom Hasell ; Samantha Y. Chong ; Maciej Haranczyk ; Andrew I. Cooper ; Kim E. Jelfs
- 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry C
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：October 1, 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：119
- 期：39
- 页码：22577-22586
- 全文大小：548K
- ISSN：1932-7455
文摘
A combination of different molecular simulation techniques was used to begin to uncover the mechanism behind the compositional tuning of gas sorption behavior in a multicomponent porous molecular crystal, CC1路CC3n路CC41鈥?i>n, where 0 < n < 1. Gas access to formally occluded voids was found to be allowed through a cooperative diffusion mechanism that requires the presence of the guest for the channel to briefly open. Molecular dynamics simulations and dynamic void analysis suggest two putative diffusion mechanisms. We propose that the gas diffusion is controlled by the cage vertices that surround the void, with the slightly smaller and more mobile cyclopentane vertices in CC4 allowing more facile nitrogen diffusion than the cyclohexane vertices in CC3. A combination of sorption simulations, void analysis, and statistical calculations suggests the diffusion mechanism may rely upon the presence of two CC4 molecules adjacent to the occluded voids.