Abstract
Molecular simulations were performed to predict CO2 adsorption in flexible metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). A generic force field was fitted to our experimental data to describe the non-bonded (electrostatic and van der Waals) interactions between CO2 molecules and the large pore (lp) and narrow pore (np) forms of the MIL-53(Al) framework. With the new validated force field, it is possible to predict CO2 uptake and enthalpy of adsorption at various applied external pressures that will modify the structure’s pore configuration and allow us to have more control over the adsorption/desorption process. A sensitivity analysis of MOF adsorption properties to the variation of the force field parameters was also intensively studied. It was shown that relatively small variations of the adsorbate gas model can improve the quality of the numerical predictions of the experimental data. However, the variations must be kept small enough to not modify the properties of the gas itself.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 101 |
| Journal | Journal of Molecular Modeling |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 1 2017 |
Funding
Supported by the Polish National Science Center (NCN, grant no. 2015/17/B/ST8/00099). Calculations were performed at the WCSS computer center of The Wroclaw University of Science and Technology using the Materials Studio Visualizer, Dmol3 and Sorption modules, grant no 33. E.D. would like to thank Ana Martín Calvo for numerous constructive discussions, and for her help with implementation of RASPA code.
Keywords
- Adsorption
- Force field
- GCMC
- Gibbs ensemble
- Lennard-Jones
- Metal-organic frameworks
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Catalysis
- Computer Science Applications
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Computational Theory and Mathematics