"Explosive" synthesis of metal-formate frameworks for methane capture: an experimental and computational study.
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In this work, we show a solvent-free "explosive" synthesis (SFES) method for the ultrafast and low-cost synthesis of metal-formate frameworks (MFFs). A combination of experiments and in-depth molecular modelling analysis - using grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations - of the adsorption performance of the synthesized nickel-formate framework (Ni-FA) revealed extremely high quality products with permanent porosity, prominent CH4/N2 selectivity (ca. 6.0), and good CH4 adsorption capacity (ca. 0.80 mmol g-1 or 33.97 cm3 cm-3) at 1 bar and 298 K. This performance is superior to those of many other state-of-the-art porous materials.
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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
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Chem Commun (Camb)
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1359-7345
1364-548X
1364-548X
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53
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)