The Dynamics of Breathing Metal-Organic Frameworks from Total Scattering

DOI

Metal-organic framework materials are a family of nanoporous solids that have potential applications in molecular storage, separation and catalysis. Some of these materials show dramatic expansion and contraction in the solid state whilst maintaining crystallinity, and this may be brought about by the choice of guest molecules or simply a change in temperature. Although crystal structures are available at different temperatures the mechanism of this flexibility is as yet unknown: this proposal aims at understanding this unusual behaviour by using RMC analysis of total scattering data. This approach has successfully been applied to other 3D structures but not yet to the highly flexible MOFs. This is a continuation of RB1010599 for which we have very promising preliminary results but were unable to complete the study due to loss of some beamtime.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088113
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088113
Provenance
Creator Professor Andrew Goodwin; Professor Martin Dove; Ms Leila Rimmer; Mr Hong Fang; Dr Matthew Tucker; Professor Richard Walton; Miss Alexis Munn; Dr Helen Playford; Dr Paul Saines
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-10-20T08:41:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-10-24T14:41:40Z