A high rotational barrier for physisorbed hydrogen in an fcu-metal-organic framework

Pham, Tony T.; Forrest, Katherine A.; Georgiev, Peter A L; Lohstroh, Wiebke; Xue, Dongxu; Hogan, Adam; Eddaoudi, Mohamed; Space, Brian; Eckert, Juergen

A high rotational barrier for physisorbed hydrogen in an fcu-metal-organic framework

Type

Article

Authors

Pham, Tony T.
Forrest, Katherine A.
Georgiev, Peter A L
Lohstroh, Wiebke
Xue, Dongxu
Hogan, Adam
Eddaoudi, Mohamed

Space, Brian
Eckert, Juergen

KAUST Department

Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research Center
Chemical Science Program
Functional Materials Design, Discovery and Development (FMD3)
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division

Date

2014-10-06

Abstract

A combined inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and theoretical study of H2 sorption in Y-FTZB, a recently reported metal-organic framework (MOF) with fcu topology, reveals that the strongest binding site in the MOF causes a high barrier to rotation on the sorbed H2. This rotational barrier for H2 is the highest yet of reported MOF materials based on physisorption. This journal is

Citation

Pham, T., Forrest, K. A., Georgiev, P. A., Lohstroh, W., Xue, D.-X., Hogan, A., … Eckert, J. (2014). A high rotational barrier for physisorbed hydrogen in an fcu-metal–organic framework. Chem. Commun., 50(91), 14109–14112. doi:10.1039/c4cc05987e

Acknowledgements

B.S. acknowledges the National Science Foundation (Award No. CHE-1152362), the computational resources that were made available by a XSEDE Grant (No. TG-DMR090028), and the use of the services provided by Research Computing at the University of South Florida. This work is based in part on experiments performed on the TOFTOF instrument operated by FRM-II at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Garching, Germany. P.A.G. acknowledges support from the Project "Beyond Everest'' under EU programme REGPOT-2011-1. This research project was also supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme through the 'Research Infrastructures' action of the 'Capacities' Programme, NMI3-II Grant No. 283883. The synthesis of the MOF studied herein and the attendant inelastic neutron scattering (INS) studies were supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).