Issue 18, 2016
From the journal:

Chemical Communications

Gate-opening effect in ZIF-8: the first experimental proof using inelastic neutron scattering†

M. E. Casco,a   Y. Q. Cheng,b   L. L. Daemen,b   D. Fairen-Jimenez, ORCID logo c   E. V. Ramos-Fernández,a   A. J. Ramirez-Cuesta*b  and  J. Silvestre-Albero*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratorio de Materiales Avanzados, Departamento de Química Inorgánica-Instituto Universitario de Materiales, Universidad de Alicante, Ctra. San Vicente-Alicante s/n, E-03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain
E-mail: joaquin.silvestre@ua.es

b Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, 1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
E-mail: timmy.ramirez.cuesta@gmail.com

c Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3RA, UK

Abstract

The gate-opening phenomenon in ZIFs is of paramount importance to understand their behavior in industrial molecular separations. Here we show for the first time using in situ inelastic neutron scattering (INS) the swinging of the –CH3 groups and the imidazolate linkers in the prototypical ZIF-8 and ZIF-8@AC hybrid materials upon exposure to mild N2 pressure.

Graphical abstract: Gate-opening effect in ZIF-8: the first experimental proof using inelastic neutron scattering

About
Cited by
Related
Download options Please wait...

Supplementary files

Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC10222G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Dec 2015
Accepted
27 Jan 2016
First published
28 Jan 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 3639-3642

Permissions

Request permissions

Gate-opening effect in ZIF-8: the first experimental proof using inelastic neutron scattering

M. E. Casco, Y. Q. Cheng, L. L. Daemen, D. Fairen-Jimenez, E. V. Ramos-Fernández, A. J. Ramirez-Cuesta and J. Silvestre-Albero, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 3639 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC10222G

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. You can use material from this article in other publications, without requesting further permission from the RSC, provided that the correct acknowledgement is given and it is not used for commercial purposes.

To request permission to reproduce material from this article in a commercial publication, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party commercial publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements