Issue 21, 2013

Influence of adsorption thermodynamics on guest diffusivities in nanoporous crystalline materials

Abstract

Published experimental data, underpinned by molecular simulations, are used to highlight the strong influence of adsorption thermodynamics on diffusivities of guest molecules inside ordered nanoporous crystalline materials such as zeolites, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), and zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs). For cage-type structures (e.g. LTA, CHA, DDR, and ZIF-8), the variation of the free energy barrier for inter-cage hopping across the narrow windows, −δFi, provides a rationalization of the observed strong influence of pore concentrations, ci, on diffusivities. In open structures with large pore volumes (e.g. FAU, IRMOF-1, CuBTC) and within channels (MFI, BEA, MgMOF-74, MIL-47, MIL-53), the pore concentration (ci) dependence of the self- (Di,self), Maxwell–Stefan (Đi), and Fick (Di) diffusivities are often strongly dictated by the inverse thermodynamic correction factor, 1/Γi ≡ ∂ln ci/∂ln pi; the magnitudes of the diffusivities are dictated by the binding energies for adsorption. For many guest–host combinations Đici dependence is directly related to the 1/Γivs. ci variation. When molecular clustering occurs, we get 1/Γi > 1, causing unusual Đivs. ci dependencies. The match, or mis-match, between the periodicity of the pore landscape and the conformations of adsorbed chain molecules often leads to non-monotonic variation of diffusivities with chain lengths.

Graphical abstract: Influence of adsorption thermodynamics on guest diffusivities in nanoporous crystalline materials

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Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
31 Jan 2013
Accepted
26 Mar 2013
First published
26 Mar 2013

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 7994-8016

Influence of adsorption thermodynamics on guest diffusivities in nanoporous crystalline materials

R. Krishna and J. M. van Baten, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 7994 DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50449B

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