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Chemistry of Soft Porous Crystals: Structural Dynamics and Gas Adsorption Properties
Author(s) -
Krause Simon,
Hosono Nobuhiko,
Kitagawa Susumu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.202004535
Subject(s) - adsorption , metastability , porous medium , porosity , characterization (materials science) , nanotechnology , chemical physics , materials science , molecular dynamics , chemistry , computational chemistry , organic chemistry
In this Minireview, we discuss the fundamental chemistry of soft porous crystals (SPCs) by characterizing their common structural features and the resulting structural softness and transitions. In particular, we focus on the recently emerging properties based on metastable transitions and those arising from local dynamics. By comparing the resulting adsorption properties to those of commonly applied rigid adsorbents, we highlight the potential of SPCs to revolutionize adsorption‐based technologies, considering our current understanding of the thermodynamic and kinetic aspects. We provide brief outlines for the experimental and computational characterization of such phenomena and offer an outlook toward next‐generation SPCs likely to be discovered in the next decade.