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Effect of ligand-based functionalization on aromatics adsorption and separation in zirconium-based metal-organic frameworks: A computational study
WU Ying,LIU Defei,QIAN Yu,XI Hongxia *
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
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Funding: National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2013AA065005), National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 21436005 and 21176084), Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No.20130172110012), Guangdong Natural Science Foundation(No.S2011030001366)
Opened online:12 November 2014
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Citation: WU Ying,LIU Defei,QIAN Yu.Effect of ligand-based functionalization on aromatics adsorption and separation in zirconium-based metal-organic frameworks: A computational study[OL]. [12 November 2014] http://en.paper.edu.cn/en_releasepaper/content/4616866
 
 
The adsorption and separation properties of benzene and toluene on the zirconium-based frameworks UiO-66, -67, -68 and their functional analogues UiO-Phe and UiO-Me2 were studied using grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations, density functional theory (DFT) and ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST). Remarkable higher adsorption uptakes of benzene and toluene at low pressures on UiO-Phe and -Me2 were found compared to their parent framework UiO-67. It can ascribed to the presence of functional groups (aromatic rings and methyl groups) that significantly intensified the adsorption, majorly by reducing the effective pore size and increasing the interaction strength with the adsorbates. While pore volumes and accessible surfaces of the frameworks turned to be the dominant factors governing the adsorption at high pressures. In the case of toluene/benzene separation, toluene selectivities on UiOs showed a two-stage separation behavior at the measured pressure range, resulting from the greater interaction affinities of toluene at low pressures and steric hindrance effects at high pressures. Additionally, the enhanced π delocalization and suitable pore size of UiO-Phe corporately gave rise to the highest toluene selectivity, suggesting the ligand functionalization strategy could reach both high adsorption capacity and separation selectivity from aromatic mixtures at low concentrations.
Keywords:adsorption and separation; UiO metal-organic frameworks; aromatics; simulation
 
 
 

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