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Amayuelas E, Farrando-Perez J, Missyul A, Grosu Y, Silvestre-Albero J, Carrillo-Carrión C. Fluorinated Nanosized Zeolitic-Imidazolate Frameworks as Potential Devices for Mechanical Energy Storage. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:46374-46383. [PMID: 39178309 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c09969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/25/2024]
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Fluorination is one of the most efficient and universal strategies to increase the hydrophobicity of materials and consequently their water stability. Zeolitic-imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), which have limited stability in aqueous media and even lower stability when synthesized on a nanometric scale, can greatly benefit from the incorporation of fluorine atoms, not only to improve their stability but also to provide additional properties. Herein, we report the preparation of two different fluorinated ZIFs through a simple and scalable approach by using mixed ligands [2-methylimidazole, as a common ligand, and 4-(4-fluorophenyl)-1H-imidazole (monofluorinated linker) or 2-methyl-5-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-imidazole (trifluorinated linker) as a dopant], demonstrating the high versatility of the synthetic method developed to incorporate different fluorine-containing imidazole-based ligands. Second, we demonstrate for the first time that these nanoscale fluorinated ZIFs outperform the pristine ZIF-8 for water intrusion/extrusion, i.e., for storing mechanical energy via forced intrusion of nonwetting water due to the improved hydrophobicity and modified framework dynamics. Moreover, we also show that by varying the nature of the F-imidazole ligand, the performance of the resulting ZIFs, including the pressure thresholds and stored/dissipated energy, can be finely tuned, thus opening the path for the design of a library of fluorine-modified ZIFs with unique behavior.
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- Eder Amayuelas
- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC EnergiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 01510 Vitoria-Gazteiz, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Materiales Avanzados, Departamento de Química Inorgánica-Instituto Universitario de Materiales, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain
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- CELLS─ALBA Synchrotron, 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC EnergiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 01510 Vitoria-Gazteiz, Spain
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Laboratorio de Materiales Avanzados, Departamento de Química Inorgánica-Instituto Universitario de Materiales, Universidad de Alicante, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain
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Caprini D, Battista F, Zajdel P, Di Muccio G, Guardiani C, Trump B, Carter M, Yakovenko AA, Amayuelas E, Bartolomé L, Meloni S, Grosu Y, Casciola CM, Giacomello A. Bubbles enable volumetric negative compressibility in metastable elastocapillary systems. Nat Commun 2024; 15:5076. [PMID: 38871721 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49136-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024] Open
Abstract
Although coveted in applications, few materials expand when subject to compression or contract under decompression, i.e., exhibit negative compressibility. A key step to achieve such counterintuitive behaviour is the destabilisations of (meta)stable equilibria of the constituents. Here, we propose a simple strategy to obtain negative compressibility exploiting capillary forces both to precompress the elastic material and to release such precompression by a threshold phenomenon - the reversible formation of a bubble in a hydrophobic flexible cavity. We demonstrate that the solid part of such metastable elastocapillary systems displays negative compressibility across different scales: hydrophobic microporous materials, proteins, and millimetre-sized laminae. This concept is applicable to fields such as porous materials, biomolecules, sensors and may be easily extended to create unexpected material susceptibilities.
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- Davide Caprini
- Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Viale Regina Elena 291, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy
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- A. Chełkowski Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, ul 75 Pułku Piechoty 1, Chorzów, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
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- X-Ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Via Luigi Borsari 46, Ferrara, Italy.
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy.
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Merchiori S, Le Donne A, Littlefair JD, Lowe AR, Yu JJ, Wu XD, Li M, Li D, Geppert-Rybczyńska M, Scheller L, Trump BA, Yakovenko AA, Zajdel P, Chorążewski M, Grosu Y, Meloni S. Mild-Temperature Supercritical Water Confined in Hydrophobic Metal-Organic Frameworks. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:13236-13246. [PMID: 38701635 PMCID: PMC11099966 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c01226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2024] [Revised: 04/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024]
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Fluids under extreme confinement show characteristics significantly different from those of their bulk counterpart. This work focuses on water confined within the complex cavities of highly hydrophobic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) at high pressures. A combination of high-pressure intrusion-extrusion experiments with molecular dynamic simulations and synchrotron data reveals that supercritical transition for MOF-confined water takes place at a much lower temperature than in bulk water, ∼250 K below the reference values. This large shifting of the critical temperature (Tc) is attributed to the very large density of confined water vapor in the peculiar geometry and chemistry of the cavities of Cu2tebpz (tebpz = 3,3',5,5'-tetraethyl-4,4'-bipyrazolate) hydrophobic MOF. This is the first time the shift of Tc is investigated for water confined within highly hydrophobic nanoporous materials, which explains why such a large reduction of the critical temperature was never reported before, neither experimentally nor computationally.
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- Sebastiano Merchiori
- Department
of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Shantou
University, Guangdong 515063, China
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- College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Shantou
University, Guangdong 515063, China
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- College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Shantou
University, Guangdong 515063, China
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- College
of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan
University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Institute
of Physics, University of Silesia, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- NIST
Center for Neutron Research, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- X-ray
Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Institute
of Physics, University of Silesia, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
- Centre for
Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Department
of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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Ryzhikov A, Dirand C, Astafan A, Nouali H, Daou TJ, Bezverkhyy I, Chaplais G, Bellat JP. Calorimetric Heats of Intrusion of LiCl Aqueous Solutions in Hydrophobic MFI-Type Zeosil: Influence of the Concentration. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:8827-8835. [PMID: 38626757 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/18/2024]
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For the first time, we report calorimetric measurements of intrusion of aqueous LiCl solutions in a hydrophobic pure siliceous MFI zeolite (silicalite-1) under high pressure. Our results show that the intrusion heats are strongly dependent on the LiCl concentration. The intrusion process is endothermic for diluted solutions (molar H2O/LiCl = 12) as well as for water, but it becomes exothermic for a concentration close to saturation (molar H2O/LiCl = 4). Analysis of the data in the framework of wetting thermodynamics shows that besides surface wetting, other phenomena occur during intrusion, such as hydrogen-bond weakening and composition change. In all cases, water is preferentially intruded so that the intruded phase becomes more diluted than the bulk solution. In the case of the most diluted solution, only water molecules seemed to be intruded. Furthermore, silicalite-1 is shown to be very stable in the presence of LiCl solution, with no noticeable structural and textural modifications observed after intrusion.
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- Andrey Ryzhikov
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M), UMR 7361 CNRS, Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC), Université de Haute-Alsace, F-68100 Mulhouse, France
- Université de Strasbourg, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, F-21078 Dijon, France
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- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M), UMR 7361 CNRS, Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC), Université de Haute-Alsace, F-68100 Mulhouse, France
- Université de Strasbourg, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M), UMR 7361 CNRS, Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC), Université de Haute-Alsace, F-68100 Mulhouse, France
- Université de Strasbourg, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M), UMR 7361 CNRS, Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC), Université de Haute-Alsace, F-68100 Mulhouse, France
- Université de Strasbourg, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, F-21078 Dijon, France
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- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M), UMR 7361 CNRS, Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC), Université de Haute-Alsace, F-68100 Mulhouse, France
- Université de Strasbourg, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, F-21078 Dijon, France
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Bushuev YG, Grosu Y, Chorążewski M. Spontaneous Dipole Reorientation in Confined Water and Its Effect on Wetting/Dewetting of Hydrophobic Nanopores. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:7604-7616. [PMID: 38300737 PMCID: PMC10875646 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c17272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/03/2024]
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The properties of nanoconfined fluids are important for a broad range of natural and engineering systems. In particular, wetting/dewetting of hydrophobic nanoporous materials is crucial due to their broad applicability for molecular separation and liquid purification; energy storage, conversion, recuperation, and dissipation; for catalysis, chromatography, and so on. In this work, a rapid, orchestrated, and spontaneous dipole reorientation was observed in hydrophobic nanotubes of various pore sizes d (7.9-16.5 Å) via simulations. This phenomenon leads to the fragmentation of water clusters in the narrow nanopores (d = 7.9, 10 Å) and strongly affects dewetting through cluster repulsion. The cavitation in these pores has an electrostatic origin. The dependence of hydrogen-bonded network properties on the tube aperture is obtained and is used to explain wetting (intrusion)-dewetting (extrusion) hysteresis. Computer simulations and experimental data demonstrate that d equals ca. 12.5 Å is a threshold between a nonhysteretic (spring) behavior, where intrusion-extrusion is reversible, and a hysteretic one (shock absorber), where hysteresis is prominent. This work suggests that water clustering and the electrostatic nature of cavitation are important factors that can be effectively exploited for controlling the wetting/dewetting of nanoporous materials.
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- Yuriy G. Bushuev
- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Szkolna 9 Street, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Szkolna 9 Street, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC EnergiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein
48, Vitoria, Gasteiz 01510, Spain
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- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Szkolna 9 Street, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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Bratko D. Reversible Surface Energy Storage in Molecular-Scale Porous Materials. Molecules 2024; 29:664. [PMID: 38338408 PMCID: PMC10856011 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29030664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2023] [Revised: 01/24/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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Forcible wetting of hydrophobic pores represents a viable method for energy storage in the form of interfacial energy. The energy used to fill the pores can be recovered as pressure-volume work upon decompression. For efficient recovery, the expulsion pressure should not be significantly lower than the pressure required for infiltration. Hysteresis of the wetting/drying cycle associated with the kinetic barrier to liquid expulsion results in energy dissipation and reduced storage efficiency. In the present work, we use open ensemble (Grand Canonical) Monte Carlo simulations to study the improvement of energy recovery with decreasing diameters of planar pores. Near-complete reversibility is achieved at pore widths barely accommodating a monolayer of the liquid, thus minimizing the area of the liquid/gas interface during the cavitation process. At the same time, these conditions lead to a steep increase in the infiltration pressure required to overcome steric wall/water repulsion in a tight confinement and a considerable reduction in the translational entropy of confined molecules. In principle, similar effects can be expected when increasing the size of the liquid particles without altering the absorbent porosity. While the latter approach is easier to follow in laboratory work, we discuss the advantages of reducing the pore diameter, which reduces the cycling hysteresis while simultaneously improving the stored-energy density in the material.
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- Dusan Bratko
- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23221, USA
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Lowe AR, Ślęczkowski P, Arkan E, Le Donne A, Bartolomé L, Amayuelas E, Zajdel P, Chorążewski M, Meloni S, Grosu Y. Exploring the Heat of Water Intrusion into a Metal-Organic Framework by Experiment and Simulation. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:5286-5293. [PMID: 38258752 PMCID: PMC10835660 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c15447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
Abstract
Wetting of a solid by a liquid is relevant for a broad range of natural and technological processes. This process is complex and involves the generation of heat, which is still poorly understood especially in nanoconfined systems. In this article, scanning transitiometry was used to measure and evaluate the pressure-driven heat of intrusion of water into solid ZIF-8 powder within the temperature range of 278.15-343.15 K. The conditions examined included the presence and absence of atmospheric gases, basic pH conditions, solid sample origins, and temperature. Simultaneously with these experiments, molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to elucidate the changing behavior of water as it enters into ZIF-8. The results are rationalized within a temperature-dependent thermodynamic cycle. This cycle describes the temperature-dependent process of ZIF-8 filling, heating, emptying, and cooling with respect to the change of internal energy of the cycle from the calculated change in the specific heat capacity of the system. At 298 K the experimental heat of intrusion per gram of ZIF-8 was found to be -10.8 ± 0.8 J·g-1. It increased by 19.2 J·g-1 with rising temperature to 343 K which is in a reasonable match with molecular dynamic simulations that predicted 16.1 J·g-1 rise. From these combined experiments, the role of confined water in heat of intrusion of ZIF-8 is further clarified.
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- Alexander R Lowe
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche Università Degli Studi di Ferrara, Via Luigi Borsari 46, Ferrara I-44121, Italy
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC EnergiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC EnergiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, 75 Pulku Piechoty 1, Chorzow 41-500, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche Università Degli Studi di Ferrara, Via Luigi Borsari 46, Ferrara I-44121, Italy
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC EnergiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
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Johnson LJ, Mirani D, Le Donne A, Bartolomé L, Amayuelas E, López GA, Grancini G, Carter M, Yakovenko AA, Trump BA, Meloni S, Zajdel P, Grosu Y. Effect of Crystallite Size on the Flexibility and Negative Compressibility of Hydrophobic Metal-Organic Frameworks. NANO LETTERS 2023; 23:10682-10686. [PMID: 38033298 PMCID: PMC10722533 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023]
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Flexible nanoporous materials are of great interest for applications in many fields such as sensors, catalysis, material separation, and energy storage. Of these, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are the most explored thus far. However, tuning their flexibility for a particular application remains challenging. In this work, we explore the effect of the exogenous property of crystallite size on the flexibility of the ZIF-8 MOF. By subjecting hydrophobic ZIF-8 to hydrostatic compression with water, the flexibility of its empty framework and the giant negative compressibility it experiences during water intrusion were recorded via in operando synchrotron irradiation. It was observed that as the crystallite size is reduced to the nanoscale, both flexibility and the negative compressibility of the framework are reduced by ∼25% and ∼15%, respectively. These results pave the way for exogenous tuning of flexibility in MOFs without altering their chemistries.
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- Liam J.
W. Johnson
- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
- Department
of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, Bilbao 48490, Leioa, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry and INSTM University of Pavia Via Taramelli 14, Pavia I-27100, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (DipSCF), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Unife), Via Luigi Borsari 46, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
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- Department
of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, Bilbao 48490, Leioa, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry and INSTM University of Pavia Via Taramelli 14, Pavia I-27100, Italy
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- Center
for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- X-Ray
Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Center
for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (DipSCF), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Unife), Via Luigi Borsari 46, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Institute
of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pulku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
- Department
of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University
of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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Giacomello A. What keeps nanopores boiling. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:110902. [PMID: 37724724 DOI: 10.1063/5.0167530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/21/2023] Open
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The liquid-to-vapor transition can occur under unexpected conditions in nanopores, opening the door to fundamental questions and new technologies. The physics of boiling in confinement is progressively introduced, starting from classical nucleation theory, passing through nanoscale effects, and terminating with the material and external parameters that affect the boiling conditions. The relevance of boiling in specific nanoconfined systems is discussed, focusing on heterogeneous lyophobic systems, chromatographic columns, and ion channels. The current level of control of boiling in nanopores enabled by microporous materials such as metal organic frameworks and biological nanopores paves the way to thrilling theoretical challenges and to new technological opportunities in the fields of energy, neuromorphic computing, and sensing.
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- Alberto Giacomello
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00184 Rome, Italy
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Amayuelas E, Sharma SK, Utpalla P, Mor J, Bartolomé L, Carter M, Trump B, Yakovenko AA, Zajdel P, Grosu Y. Bimetallic Zeolitic Imidazole Frameworks for Improved Stability and Performance of Intrusion-Extrusion Energy Applications. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2023; 127:18310-18315. [PMID: 37752902 PMCID: PMC10518860 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
Abstract
Hydrophobic flexible zeolitic imidazole frameworks (ZIFs) represent reference microporous materials in the area of mechanical energy storage, conversion, and dissipation via non-wetting liquid intrusion-extrusion cycle. However, some of them exhibit drawbacks such as lack of stability, high intrusion pressure, or low intrusion volume that make them non-ideal materials to consider as candidates for real applications. In this work, we face these limitations by exploiting the hybrid ZIF concept. Concretely, a bimetallic SOD-like ZIF consisting of Co and Zn ions was synthesized and compared with Co-ZIF (ZIF-67) and Zn-ZIF (ZIF-8) showing for the first time that the hybrid ZIF combines the good stability of ZIF-8 with the higher water intrusion volume of ZIF-67. Moreover, it is shown that the hybrid-ZIF approach can be used to tune the intrusion/extrusion pressure, which is crucial for technological applications.
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- Eder Amayuelas
- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein
48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Radiochemistry
Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India
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- Radiochemistry
Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India
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- Radiochemistry
Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein
48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- NIST
Center for Neutron Research, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- NIST
Center for Neutron Research, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- X-ray
Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Institute
of Physics, University of Silesia, 75 Pulku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein
48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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Amayuelas E, Tortora M, Bartolomé L, Littlefair JD, Paulo G, Le Donne A, Trump B, Yakovenko AA, Chorążewski M, Giacomello A, Zajdel P, Meloni S, Grosu Y. Mechanism of Water Intrusion into Flexible ZIF-8: Liquid Is Not Vapor. NANO LETTERS 2023. [PMID: 37294683 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIF) find application in storage and dissipation of mechanical energy. Their distinctive properties linked to their (sub)nanometer size and hydrophobicity allow for water intrusion only under high hydrostatic pressure. Here we focus on the popular ZIF-8 material investigating the intrusion mechanism in its nanoscale cages, which is the key to its rational exploitation in target applications. In this work, we used a joint experimental/theoretical approach combining in operando synchrotron experiments during high-pressure intrusion experiments, molecular dynamics simulations, and stochastic models to reveal that water intrusion into ZIF-8 occurs by a cascade filling of connected cages rather than a condensation process as previously assumed. The reported results allowed us to establish structure/function relations in this prototypical microporous material, representing an important step to devise design rules to synthesize porous media.
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- Eder Amayuelas
- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (DipSCF), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Unife), Via Luigi Borsari 46, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (DipSCF), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Unife), Via Luigi Borsari 46, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, 75 Pulku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (DipSCF), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Unife), Via Luigi Borsari 46, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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Johnson LJW, Paulo G, Bartolomé L, Amayuelas E, Gubbiotti A, Mirani D, Le Donne A, López GA, Grancini G, Zajdel P, Meloni S, Giacomello A, Grosu Y. Optimization of the wetting-drying characteristics of hydrophobic metal organic frameworks via crystallite size: The role of hydrogen bonding between intruded and bulk liquid. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 645:775-783. [PMID: 37172487 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.04.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
Abstract
HYPOTHESIS The behavior of Heterogeneous Lyophobic Systems (HLSs) comprised of a lyophobic porous material and a corresponding non-wetting liquid is affected by a variety of different structural parameters of the porous material. Dependence on exogenic properties such as crystallite size is desirable for system tuning as they are much more facilely modified. We explore the dependence of intrusion pressure and intruded volume on crystallite size, testing the hypothesis that the connection between internal cavities and bulk water facilitates intrusion via hydrogen bonding, a phenomenon that is magnified in smaller crystallites with a larger surface/volume ratio. EXPERIMENTS Water intrusion/extrusion pressures and intrusion volume were experimentally measured for ZIF-8 samples of various crystallite sizes and compared to previously reported values. Alongside the practical research, molecular dynamics simulations and stochastic modeling were performed to illustrate the effect of crystallite size on the properties of the HLSs and uncover the important role of hydrogen bonding within this phenomenon. FINDINGS A reduction in crystallite size led to a significant decrease of intrusion and extrusion pressures below 100 nm. Simulations indicate that this behavior is due to a greater number of cages being in proximity to bulk water for smaller crystallites, allowing cross-cage hydrogen bonds to stabilize the intruded state and lower the threshold pressure of intrusion and extrusion. This is accompanied by a reduction in the overall intruded volume. Simulations demonstrate that this phenomenon is linked to ZIF-8 surface half-cages exposed to water being occupied by water due to non-trivial termination of the crystallites, even at atmospheric pressure.
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- Liam J W Johnson
- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Calle Albert Einstein, 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 01510, Araba/Alava, Spain; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, Bilbao, 48490, Leioa, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Calle Albert Einstein, 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 01510, Araba/Alava, Spain
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Calle Albert Einstein, 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 01510, Araba/Alava, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry & INSTM University of Pavia, Via Taramelli 14, Pavia, I-27100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (DipSCF), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Unife) Via Luigi Borsari 46, Ferrara, I-44121, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, Bilbao, 48490, Leioa, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry & INSTM University of Pavia, Via Taramelli 14, Pavia, I-27100, Italy
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, 75 Pulku Piechoty 1, Chorzow, 41-500, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (DipSCF), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Unife) Via Luigi Borsari 46, Ferrara, I-44121, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy.
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Calle Albert Einstein, 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 01510, Araba/Alava, Spain; Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, Katowice, 40-006, Poland.
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Bushuev YG, Grosu Y, Chorążewski M, Meloni S. Effect of the Topology on Wetting and Drying of Hydrophobic Porous Materials. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:30067-30079. [PMID: 35730678 PMCID: PMC9264313 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c06039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
Establishing molecular mechanisms of wetting and drying of hydrophobic porous materials is a general problem for science and technology within the subcategories of the theory of liquids, chromatography, nanofluidics, energy storage, recuperation, and dissipation. In this article, we demonstrate a new way to tackle this problem by exploring the effect of the topology of pure silica nanoparticles, nanotubes, and zeolites. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we show how secondary porosity promotes the intrusion of water into micropores and affects the hydrophobicity of materials. It is demonstrated herein that for nano-objects, the hydrophobicity can be controlled by changing the ratio of open to closed nanometer-sized lateral pores. This effect can be exploited to produce new materials for practical applications when the hydrophobicity needs to be regulated without significantly changing the chemistry or structure of the materials. Based on these simulations and theoretical considerations, for pure silica zeolites, we examined and then classified the experimental database of intrusion pressures, thus leading to the prediction of any zeolite's intrusion pressure. We show a correlation between the intrusion pressure and the ratio of the accessible pore surface area to total pore volume. The correlation is valid for some zeolites and mesoporous materials. It can facilitate choosing prospective candidates for further investigation and possible exploitation, especially for energy storage, recuperation, and dissipation.
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- Yuriy G. Bushuev
- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Szkolna 9 street, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein
48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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A. Chorążewski
- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Szkolna 9 street, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche, Farmaceutiche ed Agrarie
(DOCPAS), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Unife), Via Luigi Borsari 46, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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Zajdel P, Madden DG, Babu R, Tortora M, Mirani D, Tsyrin NN, Bartolomé L, Amayuelas E, Fairen-Jimenez D, Lowe AR, Chorążewski M, Leao JB, Brown CM, Bleuel M, Stoudenets V, Casciola CM, Echeverría M, Bonilla F, Grancini G, Meloni S, Grosu Y. Turning Molecular Springs into Nano-Shock Absorbers: The Effect of Macroscopic Morphology and Crystal Size on the Dynamic Hysteresis of Water Intrusion-Extrusion into-from Hydrophobic Nanopores. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:26699-26713. [PMID: 35656844 PMCID: PMC9204699 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c04314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
Controlling the pressure at which liquids intrude (wet) and extrude (dry) a nanopore is of paramount importance for a broad range of applications, such as energy conversion, catalysis, chromatography, separation, ionic channels, and many more. To tune these characteristics, one typically acts on the chemical nature of the system or pore size. In this work, we propose an alternative route for controlling both intrusion and extrusion pressures via proper arrangement of the grains of the nanoporous material. To prove the concept, dynamic intrusion-extrusion cycles for powdered and monolithic ZIF-8 metal-organic framework were conducted by means of water porosimetry and in operando neutron scattering. We report a drastic increase in intrusion-extrusion dynamic hysteresis when going from a fine powder to a dense monolith configuration, transforming an intermediate performance of the ZIF-8 + water system (poor molecular spring) into a desirable shock-absorber with more than 1 order of magnitude enhancement of dissipated energy per cycle. The obtained results are supported by MD simulations and pave the way for an alternative methodology of tuning intrusion-extrusion pressure using a macroscopic arrangement of nanoporous material.
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- Paweł Zajdel
- Institute
of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pulku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- The
Adsorption & Advanced Materials Laboratory (AML),
Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.
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- The
Adsorption & Advanced Materials Laboratory (AML),
Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.
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- Dipartimento
di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Department
of Chemistry & INSTM University of Pavia, Via Taramelli 14, Pavia I-27100, Italy
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- Laboratory
of Thermomolecular Energetics, National
Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic
Institute”, Pr.
Peremogy 37, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Centre for
Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Centre for
Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- The
Adsorption & Advanced Materials Laboratory (AML),
Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.
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- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- NIST
Center for Neutron Research, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- NIST
Center for Neutron Research, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Chemical
and Biochemical Department, University of
Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United
States
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- NIST
Center for Neutron Research, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-2115, United States
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- Laboratory
of Thermomolecular Energetics, National
Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic
Institute”, Pr.
Peremogy 37, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Dipartimento
di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Centre for
Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Centre for
Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry & INSTM University of Pavia, Via Taramelli 14, Pavia I-27100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche
(DipSCF), Università degli Studi
di Ferrara (Unife), Via
Luigi Borsari 46, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Centre for
Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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Affiliation(s)
- Emmerich Wilhelm
- Institute of Materials Chemistry and Research, University of Wien (Vienna), Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Luo D, Peng YL, Xie M, Li M, Bezrukov AA, Zuo T, Wang XZ, Wu Y, Li YY, Lowe AR, Chorążewski MA, Grosu Y, Zhang Z, Zaworotko MJ, Zhou XP, Li D. Improving Ethane/Ethylene Separation Performance under Humid Conditions by Spatially Modified Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:11547-11558. [PMID: 35191666 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c00118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Gas separation performances are usually degraded under humid conditions for many crystalline porous materials because of the lack of water stability and/or the competition of water vapor toward the interaction sites (e.g., open metal sites). Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are suitable candidates for practical applications in gas separation because of their excellent physical/chemical stabilities. However, the limitation of substituent positions in common ZIFs has prevented extensive pore engineering to improve their separation performance. In a type of gyroidal ZIFs with gie topology, the Schiff base moiety provides additional substituent positions, making it possible to modify the spatial arrangement of hydrophobic methyl groups. Herein, a new gyroidal ZIF, ZnBAIm (H2BAIm = 1,2-bis(1-(1H-imidazol-4-yl)ethylidene)hydrazine), is designed, synthesized, and characterized. The spatially modified ZnBAIm exhibits improved thermal/chemical/mechanical stabilities compared to ZnBIm (H2BIm = 1,2-bis((5H-imidazol-4-yl)methylene)hydrazine). ZnBAIm can remain intact up to about 480 °C in a N2 atmosphere and tolerate harsh treatments (e.g., 5 M NaOH aqueous solution at room temperature for 24 h and 190 MPa high pressure in the presence of water). Moreover, the modified pore and window sizes have improved significantly the ethane/ethylene selectivity and separation performance under humid conditions for ZnBAIm. Breakthrough experiments demonstrate efficient separation of a C2H6/C2H4 (50/50, v/v) binary gas mixture under ambient conditions; more importantly, the C2H6/C2H4 separation performance is unaffected under highly humid conditions (up to 80% RH). The separation performance is attributed to combined thermodynamic (stronger dispersion interaction with C2H6 than with C2H4) and kinetic factors (diffusion), determined by density functional theory calculations and kinetic adsorption study, respectively.
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- Dong Luo
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P.R. China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, 18 Fuxue Road, Changping District, Beijing 102249, China
- College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P.R. China
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick V94T9PX, Republic of Ireland
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick V94T9PX, Republic of Ireland
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomaterials of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Engineering Technology Research Center of Drug Carrier of Guangdong, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P.R. China
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, Katowice 40-006, Poland
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Vitoria-Gasteiz 01510, Spain
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- College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick V94T9PX, Republic of Ireland
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P.R. China
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Sun Y, Rogge SMJ, Lamaire A, Vandenbrande S, Wieme J, Siviour CR, Van Speybroeck V, Tan JC. High-rate nanofluidic energy absorption in porous zeolitic frameworks. NATURE MATERIALS 2021; 20:1015-1023. [PMID: 33888902 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-021-00977-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
Optimal mechanical impact absorbers are reusable and exhibit high specific energy absorption. The forced intrusion of liquid water in hydrophobic nanoporous materials, such as zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), presents an attractive pathway to engineer such systems. However, to harness their full potential, it is crucial to understand the underlying water intrusion and extrusion mechanisms under realistic, high-rate deformation conditions. Here, we report a critical increase of the energy absorption capacity of confined water-ZIF systems at elevated strain rates. Starting from ZIF-8 as proof-of-concept, we demonstrate that this attractive rate dependence is generally applicable to cage-type ZIFs but disappears for channel-containing zeolites. Molecular simulations reveal that this phenomenon originates from the intrinsic nanosecond timescale needed for critical-sized water clusters to nucleate inside the nanocages, expediting water transport through the framework. Harnessing this fundamental understanding, design rules are formulated to construct effective, tailorable and reusable impact energy absorbers for challenging new applications.
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- Yueting Sun
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
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- Center for Molecular Modeling (CMM), Ghent University, Zwijnaarde, Belgium.
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- Center for Molecular Modeling (CMM), Ghent University, Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Center for Molecular Modeling (CMM), Ghent University, Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Zajdel P, Chorążewski M, Leão JB, Jensen GV, Bleuel M, Zhang HF, Feng T, Luo D, Li M, Lowe AR, Geppert-Rybczynska M, Li D, Grosu Y. Inflation Negative Compressibility during Intrusion-Extrusion of a Non-Wetting Liquid into a Flexible Nanoporous Framework. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:4951-4957. [PMID: 34009998 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Negative compressibility (NC) is a phenomenon when an object expands/shrinks in at least one of its dimensions upon compression/decompression. NC is very rare and is of great interest for a number of applications. In this work a gigantic (more than one order of magnitude higher compared to the reported values) NC effect was recorded during intrusion-extrusion of a non-wetting liquid into a flexible porous structure. For this purpose, in situ high-pressure neutron scattering, intrusion-extrusion experiments, and DFT calculations were applied to a system consisting of water and a highly hydrophobic Cu2(tebpz) metal-organic framework (MOF), which upon water penetration expands in a and c directions to demonstrate NC coefficients more than order of magnitude higher compared to the highest values ever reported. The proposed approach is not limited to the materials used in this work and can be applied to achieve coefficients of negative linear compressibility of more than 103 TPa-1.
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- Paweł Zajdel
- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-2115, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Shantou University, Guangdong 515063, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shantou University, Guangdong 515063, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shantou University, Guangdong 515063, China
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shantou University, Guangdong 515063, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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Chorążewski M, Zajdel P, Feng T, Luo D, Lowe AR, Brown CM, Leão JB, Li M, Bleuel M, Jensen G, Li D, Faik A, Grosu Y. Compact Thermal Actuation by Water and Flexible Hydrophobic Nanopore. ACS NANO 2021; 15:9048-9056. [PMID: 33982556 PMCID: PMC10537034 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c02175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Efficient and compact energy conversion is at the heart of the sustainable development of humanity. In this work it is demonstrated that hydrophobic flexible nanoporous materials can be used for thermal-to-mechanical energy conversion when coupled with water. In particular, a reversible nonhysteretic wetting-drying (contraction-expansion) cycle provoked by periodic temperature fluctuations was realized for water and a superhydrophobic nanoporous Cu2(tebpz) MOF (tebpz = 3,3',5,5'-tetraethyl-4,4'-bipyrazolate). A thermal-to-mechanical conversion efficiency of ∼30% was directly recorded by high-precision PVT-calorimetry, while the operational cycle was confirmed by in operando neutron scattering. The obtained results provide an alternative approach for compact energy conversion exploiting solid-liquid interfacial energy in nanoscopic flexible heterogeneous systems.
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- Mirosław Chorążewski
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, ul. 75 Pulku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, Shantou University, Guangdong 515063, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Chemical and Biochemical Department, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Shantou University, Guangdong 515063, China
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-2115, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Materials Science, Energy and Nano-engineering Department, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Ben Guerir 43150, Morocco
- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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Lowe AR, Wong WSY, Tsyrin N, Chorążewski MA, Zaki A, Geppert-Rybczyńska M, Stoudenets V, Tricoli A, Faik A, Grosu Y. The Effect of Surface Entropy on the Heat of Non-Wetting Liquid Intrusion into Nanopores. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:4827-4835. [PMID: 33844556 PMCID: PMC8154867 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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On-demand access to renewable and environmentally friendly energy sources is critical to address current and future energy needs. To achieve this, the development of new mechanisms of efficient thermal energy storage (TES) is important to improve the overall energy storage capacity. Demonstrated here is the ideal concept that the thermal effect of developing a solid-liquid interface between a non-wetting liquid and hydrophobic nanoporous material can store heat to supplement current TES technologies. The fundamental macroscopic property of a liquid's surface entropy and its relationship to its solid surface are one of the keys to predict the magnitude of the thermal effect by the development of the liquid-solid interface in a nanoscale environment-driven through applied pressure. Demonstrated here is this correlation of these properties with the direct measurement of the thermal effect of non-wetting liquids intruding into hydrophobic nanoporous materials. It is shown that the model can resonably predict the heat of intrusion into rigid mesoporous silica and some microporous zeolite when the temperature dependence of the contact angle is applied. Conversely, intrusion into flexible microporous metal-organic frameworks requires further improvement. The reported results with further development have the potential to lead to the development of a new supplementary method and mechanim for TES.
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- Alexander R. Lowe
- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Nanotechnology
Research Laboratory, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- Laboratory
of Thermomolecular Energetics, National
Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic
Institute”, Pr.
Peremogy 37, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE),
Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Laboratory
of Thermomolecular Energetics, National
Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic
Institute”, Pr.
Peremogy 37, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Nanotechnology
Research Laboratory, University of Sydney, 2006 New South
Wales, Australia
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE),
Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- Materials
Science, Energy and Nano-engineering Department, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Lot 660, Hay Moulay Rachid, 43150 Ben Guerir, Morocco
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- Centre
for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE),
Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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Zheng J, Lu Z, Wu K, Ning GH, Li D. Coinage-Metal-Based Cyclic Trinuclear Complexes with Metal-Metal Interactions: Theories to Experiments and Structures to Functions. Chem Rev 2020; 120:9675-9742. [PMID: 32786416 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Among the d10 coinage metal complexes, cyclic trinuclear complexes (CTCs) or trinuclear metallocycles with intratrimer metal-metal interactions are fascinating and important metal-organic or organometallic π-acids/bases. Each CTC of characteristic planar or near-planar trimetal nine-membered rings consists of Au(I)/Ag(I)/Cu(I) cations that linearly coordinate with N and/or C atoms in ditopic anionic bridging ligands. Since the first discovery of Au(I) CTC in the 1970s, research of CTCs has involved several fundamental areas, including noncovalent and metallophilic interaction, excimer/exciplex, acid-base chemistry, metalloaromaticity, supramolecular assemblies, and host/guest chemistry. These allow CTCs to be embraced in a wide range of innovative potential applications that include chemical sensing, semiconducting, gas and liquid adsorption/separation, catalysis, full-color display, and solid-state lighting. This review aims to provide a historic and comprehensive summary on CTCs and their extension to higher nuclearity complexes and coordination polymers from the perspectives of synthesis, structure, theoretical insight, and potential applications.
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- Ji Zheng
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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Huve J, Daou TJ, Nouali H, Patarin J, Ryzhikov A. The effect of nanostructures on high pressure intrusion–extrusion of water and electrolyte solutions in hierarchical nanoboxes of silicalite-1. NEW J CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj01891c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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A drastic effect of the presence of cavities on high pressure intrusion–extrusion of LiCl aqueous solution in silicalite-1 nanoboxes is observed.
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- Joffrey Huve
- Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)
- CNRS
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M)
- Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC)
- UMR 7361
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- Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)
- CNRS
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M)
- Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC)
- UMR 7361
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- Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)
- CNRS
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M)
- Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC)
- UMR 7361
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- Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)
- CNRS
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M)
- Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC)
- UMR 7361
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- Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)
- CNRS
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M)
- Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC)
- UMR 7361
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Lowe A, Tsyrin N, Chorążewski M, Zajdel P, Mierzwa M, Leão JB, Bleuel M, Feng T, Luo D, Li M, Li D, Stoudenets V, Pawlus S, Faik A, Grosu Y. Effect of Flexibility and Nanotriboelectrification on the Dynamic Reversibility of Water Intrusion into Nanopores: Pressure-Transmitting Fluid with Frequency-Dependent Dissipation Capability. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:40842-40849. [PMID: 31577412 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b14031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In this article, the effect of a porous material's flexibility on the dynamic reversibility of a nonwetting liquid intrusion was explored experimentally. For this purpose, high-pressure water intrusion together with high-pressure in situ small-angle neutron scattering were applied for superhydrophobic grafted silica and two metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with different flexibility [ZIF-8 and Cu2(tebpz) (tebpz = 3,3',5,5'tetraethyl-4,4'-bipyrazolate)]. These results established the relation between the pressurization rate, water intrusion-extrusion hysteresis, and porous materials' flexibility. It was demonstrated that the dynamic hysteresis of water intrusion into superhydrophobic nanopores can be controlled by the flexibility of a porous material. This opens a new area of applications for flexible MOFs, namely, a smart pressure-transmitting fluid, capable of dissipating undesired vibrations depending on their frequency. Finally, nanotriboelectric experiments were conducted and the results showed that a porous material's topology is important for electricity generation while not affecting the dynamic hysteresis at any speed.
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- Alexander Lowe
- Institute of Chemistry , University of Silesia , Szkolna 9 , 40-006 Katowice , Poland
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- Laboratory of Thermomolecular Energetics , National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" , Pr. Peremogy 37 , 03056 Kyiv , Ukraine
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- Institute of Chemistry , University of Silesia , Szkolna 9 , 40-006 Katowice , Poland
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- Institute of Physics , University of Silesia , 75 Pulku Piechoty 1 , 41-500 Chorzow , Poland
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- Institute of Physics , University of Silesia , 75 Pulku Piechoty 1 , 41-500 Chorzow , Poland
- Silesian Center for Education and Interdisciplinary Research , University of Silesia , 75 Pulku Piechoty 1A , 41-500 Chorzow , Poland
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research , National Institute of Standards and Technology , Gaithersburg , Maryland 20899 , United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research , National Institute of Standards and Technology , Gaithersburg , Maryland 20899 , United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , University of Maryland , College Park , Maryland 20742-2115 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Shantou University , Shantou , Guangdong 515063 , China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science , Jinan University , 510632 Guangzhou , China
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- Department of Chemistry , Shantou University , Shantou , Guangdong 515063 , China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science , Jinan University , 510632 Guangzhou , China
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- Laboratory of Thermomolecular Energetics , National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" , Pr. Peremogy 37 , 03056 Kyiv , Ukraine
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- Institute of Physics , University of Silesia , 75 Pulku Piechoty 1 , 41-500 Chorzow , Poland
- Silesian Center for Education and Interdisciplinary Research , University of Silesia , 75 Pulku Piechoty 1A , 41-500 Chorzow , Poland
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- CIC Energigune , Albert Einstein 48 , Miñano , Álava 01510 , Spain
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- CIC Energigune , Albert Einstein 48 , Miñano , Álava 01510 , Spain
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Giacomello A, Schimmele L, Dietrich S, Tasinkevych M. Recovering superhydrophobicity in nanoscale and macroscale surface textures. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:7462-7471. [PMID: 31512709 PMCID: PMC8751625 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01049a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 08/15/2019] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Here, we investigate the complete drying of hydrophobic cavities in order to elucidate the dependence of drying on the size, the geometry, and the degree of hydrophobicity of the confinement. Two complementary theoretical approaches are adopted: a macroscopic one based on classical capillarity and a microscopic classical density functional theory. This combination allows us to pinpoint unique drying mechanisms at the nanoscale and to clearly differentiate them from the mechanisms operational at the macroscale. Nanoscale hydrophobic cavities allow the thermodynamic destabilization of the confined liquid phase over an unexpectedly broad range of conditions, including pressures as large as 10 MPa and contact angles close to 90°. On the other hand, for cavities on the micron scale, such destabilization occurs only for much larger contact angles and close to liquid-vapor coexistence. These scale-dependent drying mechanisms are used to propose design criteria for hierarchical superhydrophobic surfaces capable of spontaneous self-recovery over a broad range of operating conditions. In particular, we detail the requirements under which it is possible to realize perpetual superhydrophobicity at positive pressures on surfaces with micron-sized textures by exploiting drying, facilitated by nanoscale coatings. Concerning the issue of superhydrophobicity, these findings indicate a promising direction both for surface fabrication and for the experimental characterization of perpetual surperhydrophobicity. From a more basic perspective, the present results have an echo on a wealth of biological problems in which hydrophobic confinement induces drying, such as in protein folding, molecular recognition, and hydrophobic gating.
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- Alberto Giacomello
- Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, 00184 Rome, Italy. and Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany and IV. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, P-1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
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Amabili M, Grosu Y, Giacomello A, Meloni S, Zaki A, Bonilla F, Faik A, Casciola CM. Pore Morphology Determines Spontaneous Liquid Extrusion from Nanopores. ACS NANO 2019; 13:1728-1738. [PMID: 30653291 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b07818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this contribution we explore by means of experiments, theory, and molecular dynamics the effect of pore morphology on the spontaneous extrusion of nonwetting liquids from nanopores. Understanding and controlling this phenomenon is central for manipulating nanoconfined liquids, e. g., in nanofluidic applications, drug delivery, and oil extraction. Qualitatively different extrusion behaviors were observed in high-pressure water intrusion-extrusion experiments on porous materials with similar nominal diameter and hydrophobicity: macroscopic capillary models and molecular dynamics simulations revealed that the very presence or absence of extrusion is connected to the internal morphology of the pores and, in particular, to the presence of small-scale roughness or pore interconnections. Additional experiments with mercury confirmed that this mechanism is generic for nonwetting liquids and is rooted in the pore topology. The present results suggest a rational way to engineer heterogeneous systems for energy and nanofluidic applications in which the extrusion behavior can be controlled via the pore morphology.
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- Matteo Amabili
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale , Sapienza Università di Roma , 00184 Rome , Italy
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- CIC Energigune , Albert Einstein 48 , Miñano ( Álava ) 01510 , Spain
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale , Sapienza Università di Roma , 00184 Rome , Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale , Sapienza Università di Roma , 00184 Rome , Italy
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- CIC Energigune , Albert Einstein 48 , Miñano ( Álava ) 01510 , Spain
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- CIC Energigune , Albert Einstein 48 , Miñano ( Álava ) 01510 , Spain
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- CIC Energigune , Albert Einstein 48 , Miñano ( Álava ) 01510 , Spain
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale , Sapienza Università di Roma , 00184 Rome , Italy
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Tinti A, Giacomello A, Casciola CM. Vapor nucleation paths in lyophobic nanopores. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2018; 41:52. [PMID: 29675633 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2018-11658-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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In recent years, technologies revolving around the use of lyophobic nanopores gained considerable attention in both fundamental and applied research. Owing to the enormous internal surface area, heterogeneous lyophobic systems (HLS), constituted by a nanoporous lyophobic material and a non-wetting liquid, are promising candidates for the efficient storage or dissipation of mechanical energy. These diverse applications both rely on the forced intrusion and extrusion of the non-wetting liquid inside the pores; the behavior of HLS for storage or dissipation depends on the hysteresis between these two processes, which, in turn, are determined by the microscopic details of the system. It is easy to understand that molecular simulations provide an unmatched tool for understanding phenomena at these scales. In this contribution we use advanced atomistic simulation techniques in order to study the nucleation of vapor bubbles inside lyophobic mesopores. The use of the string method in collective variables allows us to overcome the computational challenges associated with the activated nature of the phenomenon, rendering a detailed picture of nucleation in confinement. In particular, this rare event method efficiently searches for the most probable nucleation path(s) in otherwise intractable, high-dimensional free-energy landscapes. Results reveal the existence of several independent nucleation paths associated with different free-energy barriers. In particular, there is a family of asymmetric transition paths, in which a bubble forms at one of the walls; the other family involves the formation of axisymmetric bubbles with an annulus shape. The computed free-energy profiles reveal that the asymmetric path is significantly more probable than the symmetric one, while the exact position where the asymmetric bubble forms is less relevant for the free energetics of the process. A comparison of the atomistic results with continuum models is also presented, showing how, for simple liquids in mesoporous materials of characteristic size of ca. 4nm, the nanoscale effects reported for smaller pores have a minor role. The atomistic estimates for the nucleation free-energy barrier are in qualitative accord with those that can be obtained using a macroscopic, capillary-based nucleation theory.
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- Antonio Tinti
- Max-Planck Institut für Intelligente Systeme, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany.
- Sapienza Università di Roma, 00184, Rome, Italy.
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Ryzhikov A, Nouali H, Daou TJ, Patarin J. A drastic influence of the anion nature and concentration on high pressure intrusion-extrusion of electrolyte solutions in Silicalite-1. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:6462-6468. [PMID: 29445820 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp06520e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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High pressure intrusion-extrusion of concentrated solutions of sodium salts in a pure-silica MFI-type zeolite (Silicalite-1) was studied for potential applications in mechanical energy absorption and storage. It was discovered that the anion nature has a drastic influence on the behavior and the energetic performances of "Silicalite-1 - concentrated Na+X- solution" systems, where X = Cl-, Br-, I-, NO2-, NO3-, ClO4- and CrO42-. In the case of NaNO2, NaClO4, Na2CrO4, and NaI a combination of bumper and shock-absorber behaviors with a partial irreversible solution intrusion was observed, whereas a fully reversible spring behavior is demonstrated for the intrusion-extrusion of NaBr, NaCl and NaNO3 solutions. In comparison with water, the intrusion pressure increases for all the solutions except for NaClO4 one. The irreversibility of intrusion decreases with a dilution rate, and the behavior of the corresponding systems with diluted solutions becomes very close. The variation of the system behavior and intrusion pressure values can be related to a different affinity of the corresponding anions for the pores of Silicalite-1. The samples before and after intrusion-extrusion experiments were characterized using several structural and physicochemical methods (XRD, TGA, solid-state NMR, and N2 physisorption), but no significant structural difference was observed.
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- A Ryzhikov
- Université de Strasbourg (UdS), Université de Haute Alsace (UHA), Axe Matériaux à PorositéContrôlée (MPC), Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361, ENSCMu, 3 bis rue Alfred Werner, Mulhouse F-68093, France.
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Molecular springs, constituted by nanoporous materials immersed in a nonwetting liquid, are compact, economical, and efficient means of storing energy, owing to their enormous surface area. Surface energy is accumulated during liquid intrusion inside the pores and released by decreasing liquid pressure and thus triggering confined cavitation. State-of-the-art atomistic simulations shed light on the intrusion and extrusion of water in hydrophobic nanopores, revealing conspicuous deviations from macroscopic theories, which include accelerated cavitation, increased intrusion pressure, and reversible intrusion and extrusion processes. Understanding these nanoscale phenomena is the key to a better design of molecular springs as it allows relating the characteristics of the materials to the overall properties of the devices, e.g., their operational pressure and efficiency. Heterogeneous systems composed of hydrophobic nanoporous materials and water are capable, depending on their characteristics, of efficiently dissipating (dampers) or storing (“molecular springs”) energy. However, it is difficult to predict their properties based on macroscopic theories—classical capillarity for intrusion and classical nucleation theory (CNT) for extrusion—because of the peculiar behavior of water in extreme confinement. Here we use advanced molecular dynamics techniques to shed light on these nonclassical effects, which are often difficult to investigate directly via experiments, owing to the reduced dimensions of the pores. The string method in collective variables is used to simulate, without artifacts, the microscopic mechanism of water intrusion and extrusion in the pores, which are thermally activated, rare events. Simulations reveal three important nonclassical effects: the nucleation free-energy barriers are reduced eightfold compared with CNT, the intrusion pressure is increased due to nanoscale confinement, and the intrusion/extrusion hysteresis is practically suppressed for pores with diameters below 1.2 nm. The frequency and size dependence of hysteresis exposed by the present simulations explains several experimental results on nanoporous materials. Understanding physical phenomena peculiar to nanoconfined water paves the way for a better design of nanoporous materials for energy applications; for instance, by decreasing the size of the nanopores alone, it is possible to change their behavior from dampers to molecular springs.
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Grosu Y, Mierzwa M, Eroshenko VA, Pawlus S, Chorażewski M, Nedelec JM, Grolier JPE. Mechanical, Thermal, and Electrical Energy Storage in a Single Working Body: Electrification and Thermal Effects upon Pressure-Induced Water Intrusion-Extrusion in Nanoporous Solids. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:7044-7049. [PMID: 28177602 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b14422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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This paper presents the first experimental evidence of pronounced electrification effects upon reversible cycle of forced water intrusion-extrusion in nanoporous hydrophobic materials. Recorded generation of electricity combined with high-pressure calorimetric measurements improves the energy balance of {nanoporous solid + nonwetting liquid} systems by compensating mechanical and thermal energy hysteresis in the cycle. Revealed phenomena provide a novel way of "mechanical to electrical" and/or "thermal to electrical" energy transformation with unprecedented efficiency and additionally open a perspective to increase the efficiency of numerous energy applications based on such systems taking advantage of electricity generation during operational cycle.
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- Yaroslav Grosu
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, ICCF, F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- CIC Energigune, Albert Einstein 48, Miñano (Álava) 01510, Spain
- Laboratory of Thermomolecular Energetics, National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" , Pr. Peremogy 37, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Silesian Center for Education and Interdisciplinary Research, University of Silesia , 75 Pulku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia , Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland
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- Laboratory of Thermomolecular Energetics, National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" , Pr. Peremogy 37, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Silesian Center for Education and Interdisciplinary Research, University of Silesia , 75 Pulku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia , Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia , Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, ICCF, F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- CIC Energigune, Albert Einstein 48, Miñano (Álava) 01510, Spain
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, ICCF, F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- CIC Energigune, Albert Einstein 48, Miñano (Álava) 01510, Spain
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Ronchi L, Nouali H, Daou TJ, Patarin J, Ryzhikov A. Heterogeneous lyophobic systems based on pure silica ITH-type zeolites: high pressure intrusion of water and electrolyte solutions. NEW J CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7nj03470a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
During high pressure intrusion of LiCl solutions in ITH-type zeosils a change in system behavior with salt concentration was observed.
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- L. Ronchi
- Université de Strasbourg (UdS), Université de Haute Alsace (UHA), Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC), Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361, ENSCMu
- F-68093 Mulhouse
- France
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- Université de Strasbourg (UdS), Université de Haute Alsace (UHA), Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC), Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361, ENSCMu
- F-68093 Mulhouse
- France
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- Université de Strasbourg (UdS), Université de Haute Alsace (UHA), Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC), Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361, ENSCMu
- F-68093 Mulhouse
- France
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- Université de Strasbourg (UdS), Université de Haute Alsace (UHA), Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC), Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361, ENSCMu
- F-68093 Mulhouse
- France
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- Université de Strasbourg (UdS), Université de Haute Alsace (UHA), Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC), Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361, ENSCMu
- F-68093 Mulhouse
- France
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Ronchi L, Ryzhikov A, Nouali H, Daou TJ, Patarin J. Influence of LiCl aqueous solution concentration on the energetic performances of pure silica chabazite. NEW J CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6nj03730e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Stored energy is increased by a factor of 5.5 for the “Si-CHA–20 M aqueous LiCl” system compared to the “Si-CHA–water” system.
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- L. Ronchi
- Université de Strasbourg (UdS)
- Université de Haute Alsace (UHA)
- Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC)
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361
- ENSCMu
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- Université de Strasbourg (UdS)
- Université de Haute Alsace (UHA)
- Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC)
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361
- ENSCMu
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- Université de Strasbourg (UdS)
- Université de Haute Alsace (UHA)
- Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC)
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361
- ENSCMu
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- Université de Strasbourg (UdS)
- Université de Haute Alsace (UHA)
- Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC)
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361
- ENSCMu
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- Université de Strasbourg (UdS)
- Université de Haute Alsace (UHA)
- Axe Matériaux à Porosité Contrôlée (MPC)
- Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR 7361
- ENSCMu
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