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Mazur B, Firlej L, Kuchta B. Efficient Modeling of Water Adsorption in MOFs Using Interpolated Transition Matrix Monte Carlo. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:25559-25567. [PMID: 38710042 PMCID: PMC11103664 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c02616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2024] [Revised: 04/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
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With the specter of accelerating climate change, securing access to potable water has become a critical global challenge. Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) through metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) emerges as one of the promising solutions. The standard numerical methods applied for rapid and efficient screening for optimal sorbents face significant limitations in the case of water adsorption (slow convergence and inability to overcome high energy barriers). To address these challenges, we employed grand canonical transition matrix Monte Carlo (GC-TMMC) methodology and proposed an efficient interpolation scheme that significantly reduces the number of required simulations while maintaining accuracy of the results. Through the example of water adsorption in three MOFs: MOF-303, MOF-LA2-1, and NU-1000, we show that the extrapolation of the free energy landscape allows for prediction of the adsorption properties over a continuous range of pressure and temperature. This innovative and versatile method provides rich thermodynamic information, enabling rapid, large-scale computational screening of sorbents for adsorption, applicable for a variety of sorbents and gases. As the presented methodology holds strong applicative potential, we provide alongside this paper a modified version of the RASPA2 code with a ghost swap move implementation and a Python library designed to minimize the user's input for analyzing data derived from the TMMC simulations.
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- Bartosz Mazur
- Department
of Micro, Nano, and Bioprocess Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw 50-370, Poland
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- Department
of Micro, Nano, and Bioprocess Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw 50-370, Poland
- Laboratoire
Charles Coulomb (L2C), Universite de Montpellier
- CNRS, Montpellier 34095, France
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- Department
of Micro, Nano, and Bioprocess Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw 50-370, Poland
- MADIREL,
CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille 13013, France
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Park H, Yan X, Zhu R, Huerta EA, Chaudhuri S, Cooper D, Foster I, Tajkhorshid E. A generative artificial intelligence framework based on a molecular diffusion model for the design of metal-organic frameworks for carbon capture. Commun Chem 2024; 7:21. [PMID: 38355806 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-023-01090-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) exhibit great promise for CO2 capture. However, finding the best performing materials poses computational and experimental grand challenges in view of the vast chemical space of potential building blocks. Here, we introduce GHP-MOFassemble, a generative artificial intelligence (AI), high performance framework for the rational and accelerated design of MOFs with high CO2 adsorption capacity and synthesizable linkers. GHP-MOFassemble generates novel linkers, assembled with one of three pre-selected metal nodes (Cu paddlewheel, Zn paddlewheel, Zn tetramer) into MOFs in a primitive cubic topology. GHP-MOFassemble screens and validates AI-generated MOFs for uniqueness, synthesizability, structural validity, uses molecular dynamics simulations to study their stability and chemical consistency, and crystal graph neural networks and Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations to quantify their CO2 adsorption capacities. We present the top six AI-generated MOFs with CO2 capacities greater than 2m mol g-1, i.e., higher than 96.9% of structures in the hypothetical MOF dataset.
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- Hyun Park
- Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
- Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, NIH Resource Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
- Multiscale Materials and Manufacturing Lab, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.
- Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
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- Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
- Multiscale Materials and Manufacturing Lab, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Computational Science and Engineering, Data Science and AI Department, TotalEnergies EP Research & Technology USA, LLC, Houston, TX, 77002, USA
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- Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
- Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, NIH Resource Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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Yu Z, Jamdade S, Yu X, Cai X, Sholl DS. Efficient Generation of Large Collections of Metal-Organic Framework Structures Containing Well-Defined Point Defects. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:6658-6665. [PMID: 37462949 PMCID: PMC10388356 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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High-throughput molecular simulations of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a useful complement to experiments to identify candidates for chemical separation and storage. All previous efforts of this kind have used simulations in which MOFs are approximated as defect-free. We introduce a tool to readily generate missing-linker defects in MOFs and demonstrate this tool with a collection of 507 defective MOFs. We introduce the concept of the maximum possible defect concentration; at higher defect concentrations, deviations from the defect-free crystal structure would be readily evident experimentally. We studied the impact of defects on molecular adsorption as a function of defect concentrations. Defects have a slightly negative or negligible influence on adsorption at low pressures for ethene, ethane, and CO2 but a strong positive influence for methanol due to hydrogen bonding with defects. Defective structures tend to have loadings slightly higher than those of defect-free structures for all adsorbates at elevated pressures.
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- Zhenzi Yu
- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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Kancharlapalli S, Snurr RQ. High-Throughput Screening of the CoRE-MOF-2019 Database for CO 2 Capture from Wet Flue Gas: A Multi-Scale Modeling Strategy. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023. [PMID: 37262369 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c04079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Stabilizing the escalating CO2 levels in the atmosphere is a grand challenge in view of the increasing global demand for energy, the majority of which currently comes from the burning of fossil fuels. Capturing CO2 from point source emissions using solid adsorbents may play a part in meeting this challenge, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are considered to be a promising class of materials for this purpose. It is important to consider the co-adsorption of water when designing materials for CO2 capture from post-combustion flue gases. Computational high-throughput screening (HTS) is a powerful tool to identify top-performing candidates for a particular application from a large material database. Using a multi-scale modeling strategy that includes a machine learning model, density functional theory (DFT) calculations, force field (FF) optimization, and grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations, we carried out a systematic computational HTS of the all-solvent-removed version of the computation-ready experimental metal-organic framework (CoRE-MOF-2019) database for selective adsorption of CO2 from a wet flue gas mixture. After initial screening based on the pore diameters, a total of 3703 unique MOFs from the database were considered for screening based on the FF interaction energies of CO2, N2, and H2O molecules with the MOFs. MOFs showing stronger interactions with CO2 compared to that with H2O and N2 were considered for the next level of screening based on the interaction energies calculated from DFT. CO2-selective MOFs from DFT screening were further screened using two-component (CO2 and N2) and finally three-component (CO2, N2, and H2O) GCMC simulations to predict the CO2 capacity and CO2/N2 selectivity. Our screening study identified MOFs that show selective CO2 adsorption under wet flue gas conditions with significant CO2 uptake capacity and CO2/N2 selectivity in the presence of water vapor. We also analyzed the nature of pore confinements responsible for the observed CO2 selectivity.
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- Srinivasu Kancharlapalli
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Theoretical Chemistry Section, Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Exploring covalent organic frameworks for H2S+CO2 separation from natural gas using efficient computational approaches. J CO2 UTIL 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2022.102077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Prediction and optimization of removal performance for europium onto phosphate decorated zirconium-based metal-organic framework nanocomposites: Structure-activity relationship and mechanism evaluation. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Demir H, Keskin S. Computational insights into efficient CO2 and H2S capture through zirconium MOFs. J CO2 UTIL 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2021.101811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Zhang CL, Qian JL. Synthesis and Structure of a New Cobalt Complex with Nitrogen Heterocycles. CRYSTALLOGR REP+ 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s1063774521070245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hernandez AF, Impastato RK, Hossain MI, Rabideau BD, Glover TG. Water Bridges Substitute for Defects in Amine-Functionalized UiO-66, Boosting CO 2 Adsorption. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:10439-10449. [PMID: 34427450 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The binary adsorption of CO2 and water on an amine-functionalized UiO-66 metal-organic framework (MOF) was studied experimentally and computationally. Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations were used to investigate three additional UiO-66 MOFs with different functionalized linkers. Each MOF was studied in a defect-free form as well as two additional forms with precise linker defects. Binary adsorption isotherms are presented for CO2 at specific water loadings. While water loading in defect-free MOFs reduces the CO2 uptake, the defects slightly boost the CO2 uptake at low water loadings. It was found that water bridges form between the metal oxide cores, replacing the missing linkers. Effectively, this creates smaller pores that are more welcoming of CO2 adsorption. Experimental measurement of the binary isotherms for UiO-66-NH2 shows a behavior that is consistent with this enhancement.
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- Arianjel F Hernandez
- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688, United States
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Daglar H, Erucar I, Keskin S. Exploring the performance limits of MOF/polymer MMMs for O2/N2 separation using computational screening. J Memb Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2020.118555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Wang X, Zhang FF, Li SY, Chen YS, Wang Z, Hou XY, Chen XL, Tang L, Yue EL, Wang JJ. Excellent separation performance in a mesoporous MOF induced by 1D rhombic channels and bare nitrogen-donor sites. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2020.121670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Avci G, Erucar I, Keskin S. Do New MOFs Perform Better for CO 2 Capture and H 2 Purification? Computational Screening of the Updated MOF Database. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:41567-41579. [PMID: 32818375 PMCID: PMC7591111 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c12330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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High-throughput computational screening of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) enables the discovery of new promising materials for CO2 capture and H2 purification. The number of synthesized MOFs is increasing very rapidly, and computation-ready, experimental MOF databases are being updated. Screening the most recent MOF database is essential to identify the best performing materials among several thousands. In this work, we performed molecular simulations of the most recent MOF database and described both the adsorbent and membrane-based separation performances of 10 221 MOFs for CO2 capture and H2 purification. The best materials identified for pressure swing adsorption, vacuum swing adsorption, and temperature swing adsorption processes outperformed commercial zeolites and previously studied MOFs in terms of CO2 selectivity and adsorbent performance score. We then discussed the applicability of Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory (IAST), effects of inaccessible local pores and catenation in the frameworks and the presence of impurities in CO2/H2 mixture on the adsorbent performance metrics of MOFs. Very large numbers of MOF membranes were found to outperform traditional polymer and porous membranes in terms of H2 permeability. Our results show that MOFs that are recently added into the updated MOF database have higher CO2/H2 separation potentials than the previously reported MOFs. MOFs with small pores were identified as potential adsorbents for selective capture of CO2 from H2, whereas MOFs with high porosities were the promising membranes for selective separation of H2 from CO2. This study reveals the importance of enriching the number of MOFs in high-throughput computational screening studies for the discovery of new promising materials for CO2/H2 separation.
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- Gokay Avci
- Department
of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koc University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sariyer, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department
of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Ozyegin University, Cekmekoy, Istanbul 34794, Turkey
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- Department
of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koc University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sariyer, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey
- Phone: +90(212)338 1362.
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