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Single-Crystalline Covalent Organic Frameworks with Exceptionally High Specific Surface Areas and Gas Storage Capacities

October 10, 2024
Author(s)
Baoqiu Yu, Yu Tao, Xuan Yao, Yucheng Jin, Shan Liu, Tongtong Xu, Hailong Wang, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Xin Zhou, Xiao Wang, Xu Ding, Xin Xiao, Yue-Biao Zhang, Jianzhuang Jiang
Single-crystalline covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are highly desirable towards understanding their pore chemistry and functions. Herein, two 50100 μm single-crystalline three-dimensional (3D) COFs, TAM-TFPB-COF and TAPB-TFS-COF, were fabricated from

Integrating Crystallographic and Computational Approaches to Carbon-Capture Materials for the Mitigation of Climate Change

August 27, 2024
Author(s)
Eric J. Cockayne, Austin McDannald, Winnie Wong-Ng, Yu-Sheng Chen, Felipe Gandara Barragan, Jason Benedict, Christopher H. Hendon, David A. Keen, Ute Kolb, Lan Li, Shengqian Ma, William Morris, Aditya Nandy, Tomce Runcevski, Mustapha Soukri, Anuroop Sriram, Janice A. Steckel, John Findley, Chris Wilmer, Taner N. Yildirim, Wei Zhou, Igor Levin, Craig Brown
This article presents an overview of the current state of the art in the structure determination of microporous carbon-capture materials, as discussed at the recent NIST workshop "Integrating Crystallographic and Computational Approaches to Carbon-Capture

Construction of Highly Porous and Robust Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework for High-Capacity Clean Energy Gas Storage

August 1, 2024
Author(s)
Jia-Xin Wang, Xu Zhang, Changhao Jiang, Teng-Fei Zhang, Jiyan Pei, Wei Zhou, Taner N. Yildirim, Banglin Chen, Guodong Qian, Bin Li
Development of highly porous and robust hydrogen bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) for high-pressure methane and hydrogen storage remains a grand challenge due to the fragile nature of hydrogen bonds. Herein, we report a strategy of constructing the double

Reverse Separation of Carbon Dioxide and Acetylene in Two Isostructural Copper Pyridine-Carboxylate Frameworks

July 21, 2024
Author(s)
Jing-Hong Li, You-Wei Gan, Jun-Xian Chen, Rui-Biao Lin, Yisi Yang, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Banglin Chen, Xiao-Ming Chen
Separating acetylene from carbon dioxide is important but highly challenging due to their similar molecular shapes and physical properties. Adsorptive separation of carbon dioxide from acetylene can directly produce pure acetylene but is hardly realized

Water-Enhanced CO2 Capture with Molecular Salt Sodium Guanidinate

June 3, 2024
Author(s)
Hayden Evans, Marcus Carter, Wei Zhou, Taner N. Yildirim, Craig Brown, Hui Wu
Solid-state amine absorbent materials, including those containing guanidine derivatives, have received tremendous attention as the world combats the challenges of climate change. Although these materials are attractive for their selective CO2 capture

Ultrasound programmable hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks for sono-chemogenetics

December 9, 2023
Author(s)
Wenliang Wang, Yanshu Shi, Wenrui Chai, Kai Tang, Ilya Pyatnitskiy, Yi Xie, Xiangping Liu, Weilong He, Jinmo Jeong, Ju-Chun Hsieh, Anakaren Lozano, Brinkley Artman, Xi Shi, Nicole Hoefer, Binita Shrestha, Noah Stern, Wei Zhou, David McComb, Tyrone Porter, Graeme Henkelman, Banglin Chen, Huiliang Wang
The precise control of mechanochemical activation within deep tissues via non-invasive ultrasound holds profound implications for advancing our understanding of fundamental biomedical sciences and revolutionizing disease treatments. However, a theory

Observation of Interpenetrated Topology Isomerism for Covalent Organic Frameworks with Atom-resolution Single Crystal Structures

November 9, 2023
Author(s)
Baoqiu Yu, Wenliang Li, Jing-Hong Li, Rui-Biao Lin, Hailong Wang, Xu Ding, Yucheng Jin, Xiya Yang, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Jingping Zhang, Jianzhuang Jiang
Rational control and understanding of isomerism are of significance but still remain a great challenge in reticular frameworks in particular for covalent organic frameworks (COFs) due to the complicated synthesis and energy factors. Herein, reaction of 3,3

Adaptive Pore Opening to Form Tailored Adsorption Sites in a Cooperatively Flexible Framework Enables Record Inverse Propane/Propylene Separation

October 11, 2023
Author(s)
Ryan Klein, Lukas Bingel, Arijit Halder, Marcus Carter, Benjamin Trump, Eric Bloch, Wei Zhou, Krista Walton, Craig Brown, C. McGuirk
A proposed low-energy alternative to the separation of alkanes from alkenes by energy-intensive cryogenic distillation is separation by porous adsorbents. Unfortunately, most adsorbents preferentially take up the desired, high-value major component alkene

Pore Modulation of Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks for Efficient Separation of Propylene

September 11, 2023
Author(s)
Youlie Cai, Junkuo Gao, Jing-Hong Li, Puxu Liu, Yanchun Zheng, Wei Zhou, Hui Wu, Libo Li, Rui-Biao Lin, Banglin Chen
Developing hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) that combine functional sites, size control, and storage capability for targeting gas molecule capture is a novel and challenging venture. However, there is a lack of effective strategies to tune the

Layered Porous Molecular Crystals via Interdigitation-Directed Assembly

August 16, 2023
Author(s)
Nie Fang, Siquan Zhang, Zhenchuang Xu, Si Chen, Xu Zhang, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Yanchuan Zhao
Building robust porous molecular architectures with van der Waals interactions holds promise for advancements in catalysis, chemosensing, and separation techniques. In a macroscopic context, grand buildings, toy houses, and jigsaw puzzles can be

Thermal Polymorphism in CsCB11H12

March 1, 2023
Author(s)
Radovan Cerny, Matteo Brighi, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Fabrizio Murgia, Valerio Gulino, Petra de Jongh, Benjamin Trump, Terrence J. Udovic
Thermal polymorphism in the alkali-metal salts incorporating the icosohedral monocarba-hydridoborate anion, CB11H12, results in intriguing dynamical properties leading to superionic conductivity for the lightest alkali-metal analogues, LiCB11H12 and

Characterizing the ZrBe 2 H x Phase Diagram via Neutron Scattering Methods

January 1, 2023
Author(s)
Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Terrence J. Udovic, Jr. Bowman, Bjorn C. Hauback
It is well-known that ZrBe 2H 1.5 exists as a single-phase hydride with hexagonal P6/mmm symmetry that undergoes some type of hydrogen sublattice ordering below 200 K (235-250 K for ZrBe 2D 1.5&). Both neutron powder diffraction and neutron vibrational