title: MOF Crystal Chemistry Paving the Way to Gas Storage Needs: Aluminum-Based soc-MOF for CH4, O2, and CO2 Storage.
abstract: The molecular building block approach was employed effectively to construct a series of novel isoreticular, highly porous and stable, aluminum-based metal-organic frameworks with soc topology. From this platform, three compounds were experimentally isolated and fully characterized: namely, the parent Al-soc-MOF-1 and its naphthalene and anthracene analogues. Al-soc-MOF-1 exhibits outstanding gravimetric methane uptake (total and working capacity). It is shown experimentally, for the first time, that the Al-soc-MOF platform can address the challenging Department of Energy dual target of 0.5 g/g (gravimetric) and 264 cm(3) (STP)/cm(3) (volumetric) methane storage. Furthermore, Al-soc-MOF exhibited the highest total gravimetric and volumetric uptake for carbon dioxide and the utmost total and deliverable uptake for oxygen at relatively high pressures among all microporous MOFs. In order to correlate the MOF pore structure and functionality to the gas storage properties, to better understand the structure-property relationship, we performed a molecular simulation study and evaluated the methane storage performance of the Al-soc-MOF platform using diverse organic linkers. It was found that shortening the parent Al-soc-MOF-1 linker resulted in a noticeable enhancement in the working volumetric capacity at specific temperatures and pressures with amply conserved gravimetric uptake/working capacity. In contrast, further expansion of the organic linker (branches and/or core) led to isostructural Al-soc-MOFs with enhanced gravimetric uptake but noticeably lower volumetric capacity. The collective experimental and simulation studies indicated that the parent Al-soc-MOF-1 exhibits the best compromise between the volumetric and gravimetric total and working uptakes under a wide range of pressure and temperature conditions.
authors.forename: Dalal
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alezi
authors.forename: Youssef
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Belmabkhout
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suyetin
authors.forename: Prashant M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Bhatt
authors.forename: Łukasz J
authors.initials: ŁJ
authors.lastname: Weseliński
authors.forename: Vera
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Solovyeva
authors.forename: Karim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Adil
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Crete , Voutes, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Spanopoulos
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Crete , Voutes, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.
authors.forename: Pantelis N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Trikalitis
authors.forename: Abdul-Hamid
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Emwas
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eddaoudi
mesh_terms: D000535:Aluminum / Q000737:chemistry*; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008697:Methane / Q000737:chemistry*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D000535:Aluminum; D008697:Methane; D010100:Oxygen