Work

Exceptional Negative Thermal Expansion in Isoreticular Metal–Organic Frameworks

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: Shrink when heated: A new model for flexible frameworks is used to simulate the structures and adsorption properties of isoreticular metal–organic frameworks (IRMOFs), such as IRMOF-1 (see picture; Zn silver, C cyan, H white, O red). The structural simulations suggest that the IRMOFs have negative thermalexpansion coefficients over their full temperature ranges of stability.

Source: Angewandte Chemie International Edition

DOI: 10.1002/anie.200700218

Authors: David Dubbeldam, Krista S. Walton, Donald E. Ellis, Randall Q. Snurr

Institutions: Northwestern University, Kansas State University

Language: English

Topic: Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications

Subfield: Inorganic Chemistry

Field: Chemistry

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

Award: NIRT: Design of Nanoporous Materials for Enantioselective Single-Site Catalysis and Separations