TY - JOUR
T1 - Fine-tuning a robust metal-organic framework toward enhanced clean energy gas storage
AU - Chen, Zhijie
AU - Mian, Mohammad Rasel
AU - Lee, Seung Joon
AU - Chen, Haoyuan
AU - Zhang, Xuan
AU - Kirlikovali, Kent O.
AU - Shulda, Sarah
AU - Melix, Patrick
AU - Rosen, Andrew S.
AU - Parilla, Philip A.
AU - Gennett, Thomas
AU - Snurr, Randall Q.
AU - Islamoglu, Timur
AU - Yildirim, Taner
AU - Farha, Omar K.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge research support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under Award DE-EE0008816. K.O.K. gratefully acknowledges support from the IIN Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Northwestern University International Institute for Nanotechnology. This work made use of the EPIC facility of Northwestern University’s NUANCE Center, which has received support from the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource (NSF ECCS-1542205); the MRSEC program (NSF DMR-1720139) at the Materials Research Center; the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN); the Keck Foundation; and the State of Illinois, through the IIN. This work made use of the IMSERC at Northwestern University, which has received support from the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource (NSF ECCS-1542205), the State of Illinois, and the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN). NREL acknowledges funding from the Hydrogen Materials - Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC), established as part of the Energy Materials Network under the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO), under Contract DE-AC36-08-GO28308. H.C., P.M., A.S.R. and R.Q.S. acknowledge computing support from the Quest High Performance Computing facility at Northwestern University. P.M. acknowledges funding by the Humboldt foundation through a Feodor Lynen fellowship.
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PY - 2021/11/17
Y1 - 2021/11/17
N2 - The development of adsorbents with molecular precision offers a promising strategy to enhance storage of hydrogen and methane─considered the fuel of the future and a transitional fuel, respectively─and to realize a carbon-neutral energy cycle. Herein we employ a postsynthetic modification strategy on a robust metal-organic framework (MOF), MFU-4l, to boost its storage capacity toward these clean energy gases. MFU-4l-Li displays one of the best volumetric deliverable hydrogen capacities of 50.2 g L-1 under combined temperature and pressure swing conditions (77 K/100 bar → 160 K/5 bar) while maintaining a moderately high gravimetric capacity of 9.4 wt %. Moreover, MFU-4l-Li demonstrates impressive methane storage performance with a 5-100 bar usable capacity of 251 cm3 (STP) cm-3 (0.38 g g-1) and 220 cm3 (STP) cm-3 (0.30 g g-1) at 270 and 296 K, respectively. Notably, these hydrogen and methane storage capacities are significantly improved compared to those of its isoreticular analogue, MFU-4l, and place MFU-4l-Li among the best MOF-based materials for this application.
AB - The development of adsorbents with molecular precision offers a promising strategy to enhance storage of hydrogen and methane─considered the fuel of the future and a transitional fuel, respectively─and to realize a carbon-neutral energy cycle. Herein we employ a postsynthetic modification strategy on a robust metal-organic framework (MOF), MFU-4l, to boost its storage capacity toward these clean energy gases. MFU-4l-Li displays one of the best volumetric deliverable hydrogen capacities of 50.2 g L-1 under combined temperature and pressure swing conditions (77 K/100 bar → 160 K/5 bar) while maintaining a moderately high gravimetric capacity of 9.4 wt %. Moreover, MFU-4l-Li demonstrates impressive methane storage performance with a 5-100 bar usable capacity of 251 cm3 (STP) cm-3 (0.38 g g-1) and 220 cm3 (STP) cm-3 (0.30 g g-1) at 270 and 296 K, respectively. Notably, these hydrogen and methane storage capacities are significantly improved compared to those of its isoreticular analogue, MFU-4l, and place MFU-4l-Li among the best MOF-based materials for this application.
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U2 - 10.1021/jacs.1c08749
DO - 10.1021/jacs.1c08749
M3 - Article
C2 - 34752071
AN - SCOPUS:85119516041
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 143
SP - 18838
EP - 18843
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 45
ER -