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Process-informed adsorbent design guidelines for direct air capture

Direct air capture using solid adsorbents is a proven technology critical to reducing our net greenhouse gas emissions to zero and beyond. Currently, academic research into the technology mainly focuses on the devel-opment of new adsorbents. However, there ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Biporous Metal-Organic Framework with Tunable CO2/CH4 Separation Performance Facilitated by Intrinsic Flexibility

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Kyriakos Stylianou, Daniele Ongari, Peter George Boyd, Andrzej Gladysiak, Arunraj Chidambaram, Kathryn Suzanne Deeg

In this work, we report the synthesis of SION-8, a novel metal-organic framework (MOF) based on Ca(II) and a tetracarboxylate ligand TBAPy(4-) endowed with two chemically distinct types of pores characterized by their hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties ...

2018

DORI Reveals the Influence of Noncovalent Interactions on Covalent Bonding Patterns in Molecular Crystals Under Pressure

Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Berend Smit, Senja Dominique Barthel, Benjamin André René Meyer

The study of organic molecular crystals under high pressure provides fundamental insight into crystal packing distortions and reveals mechanisms of phase transitions and the crystallization of polymorphs. These solid-state transformations can be monitored ...

2019

Adsorption in Pyrene-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks: The Role of Pore Structure and Topology

Berend Smit, Wendy Lee Queen, Nency Patricio Domingues, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Fatma Pelin Uran, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Miriam Jasmin Pougin, Jordi Espin Marti

Pore topology and chemistry play crucial roles in the adsorption characteristics of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). To deepen our understanding of the interactions between MOFs and CO2 during this process, we systematically investigate the adsorption prop ...

2024

Making Molecules Vibrate: Interactive Web Environment for the Teaching of Infrared Spectroscopy

Luc Patiny, Berend Smit, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Infrared spectroscopy (IR) is a staple structural elucidation and characterization technique because of its ability to identify functional groups and its ease of use. Interestingly, it allows the capture of electronic effects via their influence on the bon ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Evaluating Charge Equilibration Methods To Generate Electrostatic Fields in Nanoporous Materials

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Peter George Boyd, Özge Kadioglu

Charge equilibration (Qeq) methods can estimate the electrostatic potential of molecules and periodic frameworks by assigning point charges to each atom, using only a small fraction of the resources needed to compute density functional (DFT)-derived charge ...

2019

Buffered Coordination Modulation as a Means of Controlling Crystal Morphology and Molecular Diffusion in an Anisotropic Metal-Organic Framework

Berend Smit

Significant advances have been made in the synthesis of chemically selective environments within metal-organic frameworks, yet materials development and industrial implementation have been hindered by the inability to predictively control crystallite size ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Impact of the strength and spatial distribution of adsorption sites on methane deliverable capacity in nanoporous materials

Berend Smit

The methane deliverable capacity of adsorbent materials is a critical performance metric that will determine the viability of using adsorbed natural gas (ANG) technology in vehicular applications. ARPA-E recently set a target deliverable capacity of 315 cc ...

Elsevier2017

Force Field Development from Periodic Density Functional Theory Calculations for Gas Separation Applications Using Metal-Organic Frameworks

Berend Smit, Yongjin Lee

We present accurate force fields developed from density functional theory (DFT) calculations with periodic boundary conditions for use in molecular simulations involving M-2(dobdc) (M-MOF-74; dobdc(4-) = 2,5-dioxidobenzenedicarboxylate; M = Mg, Mn, Fe, Co, ...

American Chemical Society2016

Biomass to energy: a machine learning model for optimum gasification pathways

Berend Smit, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Biomass is a highly versatile renewable resource for decarbonizing energy systems. Gasification is a promising conversion technology that can transform biomass into multiple energy carriers to produce heat, electricity, biofuels, or chemicals. At present, ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

pyIAST: Ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) Python package

Berend Smit

Ideal adsorbed solution theory (LAST) is a widely-used thermodynamic framework to readily predict mixed-gas adsorption isotherms from a set of pure-component adsorption isotherms. We present an open-source, user-friendly Python package, pyIAST, to perform ...

Elsevier2016

Flat-Histogram Monte Carlo as an Efficient Tool To Evaluate Adsorption Processes Involving Rigid and Deformable Molecules

Berend Smit

Monte Carlo simulations are the foundational technique for predicting thermodynamic properties of open systems where the process of interest involves the exchange of particles. Thus, they have been used extensively to computationally evaluate the adsorptio ...

2018

Performance of van der Waals Corrected Functionals for Guest Adsorption in the M-2(dobdc) Metal-Organic Frameworks

Berend Smit

Small-molecule binding in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be accurately studied both experimentally and computationally, provided the proper tools are employed. Herein, we compare and contrast properties associated with guest binding by means of densit ...

American Chemical Society2017

Statistical mechanical model of gas adsorption in porous crystals with dynamic moieties

Berend Smit

Some nanoporous, crystalline materials possess dynamic constituents, for example, rotatable moieties. These moieties can undergo a conformation change in response to the adsorption of guest molecules, which qualitatively impacts adsorption behavior. We pos ...

National Academy of Sciences2017

A data-science approach to predict the heat capacity of nanoporous materials

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Mehrdad Asgari, Daniele Ongari, Elias Moubarak, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Özge Kadioglu, Balázs Álmos Novotny

The heat capacity of a material is a fundamental property of great practical importance. For example, in a carbon capture process, the heat required to regenerate a solid sorbent is directly related to the heat capacity of the material. However, for most m ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Materials Cloud, a platform for open computational science

Sebastiaan Philippe Huber, Valeria Granata, Nicola Marzari, Fernando Gargiulo, Giovanni Pizzi, Aliaksandr Yakutovich, Berend Smit, Martin Uhrin, Snehal Pramod Kumbhar, Spyros Zoupanos, Marco Borelli, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Elsa Passaro, Casper Welzel Andersen

Materials Cloud is a platform designed to enable open and seamless sharing of resources for computational science, driven by applications in materials modelling. It hosts (1) archival and dissemination services for raw and curated data, together with their ...

2020

CO2 induced phase transitions in diamine-appended metal-organic frameworks

Berend Smit

Using a combination of density functional theory and lattice models, we study the effect of CO2 adsorption in an amine functionalized metal-organic framework. These materials exhibit a step in the adsorption isotherm indicative of a phase change. The press ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Anomalous Effects of Velocity Rescaling Algorithms: The Flying Ice Cube Effect Revisited

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit

The flying ice cube effect is a molecular dynamics simulation artifact in which the use of velocity rescaling thermostats sometimes causes violation of the equipartition theorem, affecting both structural and dynamic properties. The reason for this artifac ...

2018

Cutting Materials in Half: A Graph Theory Approach for Generating Crystal Surfaces and Its Prediction of 2D Zeolites

Berend Smit, Senja Dominique Barthel, Peter George Boyd

Scientific interest in two-dimensional (2D) materials, ranging from graphene and other single layer materials to atomically thin crystals, is quickly increasing for a large variety of technological applications. While in silico design approaches have made ...

2018

Optical absorption properties of metal-organic frameworks: solid stateversusmolecular perspective

Ivano Tavernelli, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Berend Smit, Maria Fumanal Quintana

The vast chemical space of metal and ligand combinations in Transition Metal Complexes (TMCs) gives rise to a rich variety of electronic excited states with local and non-local character such as intra-ligand (IL), metal-centered (MC), metal-to-ligand (MLCT ...

2020