TY - JOUR
T1 - Bridging Zirconia Nodes within a Metal-Organic Framework via Catalytic Ni-Hydroxo Clusters to Form Heterobimetallic Nanowires
AU - Platero-Prats, Ana E.
AU - League, Aaron B.
AU - Bernales, Varinia
AU - Ye, Jingyun
AU - Gallington, Leighanne C.
AU - Vjunov, Aleksei
AU - Schweitzer, Neil M.
AU - Li, Zhanyong
AU - Zheng, Jian
AU - Mehdi, B. Layla
AU - Stevens, Andrew J.
AU - Dohnalkova, Alice
AU - Balasubramanian, Mahalingam
AU - Farha, Omar K.
AU - Hupp, Joseph T.
AU - Browning, Nigel D.
AU - Fulton, John L.
AU - Camaioni, Donald M.
AU - Lercher, Johannes A.
AU - Truhlar, Donald G.
AU - Gagliardi, Laura
AU - Cramer, Christopher J.
AU - Chapman, Karena W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported as part of the Inorganometallic Catalysis Design Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under Award No. DE-SC0012702. Work done at Argonne was performed using the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. XAS measurements at 20-BM were further supported by the Canadian Light Source. We thank Dr. A. B. F. Martinson and Dr. I. S. Kim for preparing the Ni-AIM sample used for variable-temperature diffraction analysis of the lattice dimensions. A.E.P.P. acknowledges a Beatriu de Pinos fellowship (BP-DGR 2014) from the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge from the Catalan Government. STEM experiments were supported by the Chemical Imaging Initiative (CII) Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL is a multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle for the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830. The STEM work was performed using the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a national scientific user facility sponsored by the Department of Energys Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at PNNL. MRCAT operations are supported by the Department of Energy and the MRCAT member institutions.
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© 2017 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2017/8/2
Y1 - 2017/8/2
N2 - Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with their well-ordered pore networks and tunable surface chemistries, offer a versatile platform for preparing well-defined nanostructures wherein functionality such as catalysis can be incorporated. Notably, atomic layer deposition (ALD) in MOFs has recently emerged as a versatile approach to functionalize MOF surfaces with a wide variety of catalytic metal-oxo species. Understanding the structure of newly deposited species and how they are tethered within the MOF is critical to understanding how these components couple to govern the active material properties. By combining local and long-range structure probes, including X-ray absorption spectroscopy, pair distribution function analysis, and difference envelope density analysis, with electron microscopy imaging and computational modeling, we resolve the precise atomic structure of metal-oxo species deposited in the MOF NU-1000 through ALD. These analyses demonstrate that deposition of NiOxHy clusters occurs selectively within the smallest pores of NU-1000, between the zirconia nodes, serving to connect these nodes along the c-direction to yield heterobimetallic metal-oxo nanowires. This bridging motif perturbs the NU-1000 framework structure, drawing the zirconia nodes closer together, and also underlies the sintering resistance of these clusters during the hydrogenation of light olefins.
AB - Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with their well-ordered pore networks and tunable surface chemistries, offer a versatile platform for preparing well-defined nanostructures wherein functionality such as catalysis can be incorporated. Notably, atomic layer deposition (ALD) in MOFs has recently emerged as a versatile approach to functionalize MOF surfaces with a wide variety of catalytic metal-oxo species. Understanding the structure of newly deposited species and how they are tethered within the MOF is critical to understanding how these components couple to govern the active material properties. By combining local and long-range structure probes, including X-ray absorption spectroscopy, pair distribution function analysis, and difference envelope density analysis, with electron microscopy imaging and computational modeling, we resolve the precise atomic structure of metal-oxo species deposited in the MOF NU-1000 through ALD. These analyses demonstrate that deposition of NiOxHy clusters occurs selectively within the smallest pores of NU-1000, between the zirconia nodes, serving to connect these nodes along the c-direction to yield heterobimetallic metal-oxo nanowires. This bridging motif perturbs the NU-1000 framework structure, drawing the zirconia nodes closer together, and also underlies the sintering resistance of these clusters during the hydrogenation of light olefins.
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U2 - 10.1021/jacs.7b04997
DO - 10.1021/jacs.7b04997
M3 - Article
C2 - 28696712
AN - SCOPUS:85026837336
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 139
SP - 10410
EP - 10418
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 30
ER -