Transport into metal-organic frameworks from solution is not purely diffusive.
Chemistry in motion: a combination of confocal microscopy and reaction-diffusion modeling provided a powerful toolkit with which solution transport into metal-organic framework crystals was studied. Commonly used pure diffusion models are insufficient to describe this process and, instead, it is necessary to account for the interactions of the guest molecules and the MOF scaffold.
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Shuangbing
S
Han
Thomas M
TM
Hermans
Patrick E
PE
Fuller
Yanhu
Y
Wei
Bartosz A
BA
Grzybowski
D003460:Crystallization; D004058:Diffusion; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry*; D012996:Solutions / Q000737:chemistry*
D008670:Metals; D009930:Organic Chemicals; D012996:Solutions