Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Structural dynamics of a metal–organic framework induced by CO2 migration in its non-uniform porous structure

  • Pu Zhao,
  • Hong Fang,
  • Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay,
  • Aurelia Li,
  • Svemir Rudić,
  • Ian J. McPherson,
  • Chiu C. Tang,
  • David Fairen-Jimenez,
  • S. C. Edman Tsang,
  • Simon A. T. Redfern

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08939-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Metal–organic frameworks that undergo structural transitions in response to external stimuli are promising for gas storage, but the mechanisms of such dynamics are poorly understood. Here the authors show that the structural transformation of ZIF-7 is induced by CO2 migration through its non-uniform porous structure.