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An approach for predicting intracrystalline diffusivities and adsorption entropies in nanoporous crystalline materials
Author(s) -
Gao Mingbin,
Li Hua,
Ye Mao,
Liu Zhongmin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.16991
Subject(s) - nanoporous , adsorption , thermal diffusivity , chemical physics , diffusion , molecule , materials science , thermodynamics , work (physics) , catalysis , chemical engineering , chemistry , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , physics , engineering
Confinement of molecules in nanoporous crystalline materials results in the unique and diverse characteristics of intracrystalline diffusion and adsorption, which can significantly affect the efficiency of gas separation and/or catalysis. However, understanding the interplay between confinement and intracrystalline diffusion and adsorption remains elusive at the quantitative level. In this work, it is found that the intracrystalline diffusion could be related to the hopping rate, which might be further connected to the translational and rotational motion of molecules and quantified by corresponding partition functions. Based on this analysis, the correlations capable of predicting the intracrystalline diffusivity and the adsorption entropy are developed. It is shown that the correlations can well capture the experimental and simulation results of more than 20 frameworks, including zeolites and MOFs, for a wide range of guest molecules. This approach can potentially serve as rapid screening tool for nanoporous crystalline materials in gas separation and catalysis.