Engineering of Pore Geometry for Ultrahigh Capacity Methane Storage in Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks

Cong-Cong Liang; Zhao-Lin Shi; Chun-Ting He; Jing Tan; Hu-Die Zhou; Hao-Long Zhou; Yongjin Lee; Yue-Biao Zhang

doi:10.1021/jacs.7b08347

Engineering of Pore Geometry for Ultrahigh Capacity Methane Storage in Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks

J Am Chem Soc. 2017 Sep 27;139(38):13300-13303. doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b08347. Epub 2017 Sep 13.

Authors

Cong-Cong Liang¹, Zhao-Lin Shi¹, Chun-Ting He², Jing Tan¹, Hu-Die Zhou¹, Hao-Long Zhou¹, Yongjin Lee¹, Yue-Biao Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 201210, China.
² School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University , Guangzhou 510275, China.

PMID: 28870070
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08347

Abstract

Mesoporous Zn₄O(-COO)₆-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), including UMCM-1, MOF-205, MUF-7a, and the newly synthesized MOFs, termed ST-1, ST-2, ST-3, and ST-4 (ST = ShanghaiTech University), have been systematically investigated for ultrahigh capacity methane storage. Exceptionally, ST-2 was found to have the highest deliverable capacity of 289 cm³_STP/cm³ (567 mg/g) at 298 K and 5-200 bar, which surpasses all previously reported records held by porous materials. We illustrate that the fine-tuned mesoporosity is critical in further improving the deliverable capacities at ultrahigh pressure.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't