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Accelerating progress in the discovery and deployment of advanced nanoporous materials relies on chemical insight and structure-property relationships for rational design. Because of the complexity of this problem, trial-and-error is heavily involved in th ...

Molecular simulations with periodic boundary conditions require the definition of a certain cutoff radius, r(c) beyond which pairwise dispersion interactions are neglected. For the simulation of homogeneous phases the use of tail corrections is well-establ ...

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are increasingly used in applications that rely on the optical and electronic properties of these materials. These applications require a fundamental understanding on how the structure of these materials, and in particular t ...

Decarbonisation from a variety of industrial and power emission sectors highlights a marked need for capture technologies that can be optimized for different CO2 sources and integrated into an equally diverse range of applications of captured CO2 as a feed ...

The tandem hydroformylation-aldol condensation (tandem HF-AC) reaction offers an efficient synthetic route to the synthesis of industrially relevant products. The addition of Zn-MOF-74 to the cobalt-catalyzed hydroformylation of 1-hexene enables tandem HF- ...

Metal nanoparticles (NPs) are usually stabilized by a capping agent, a surfactant, or a support material, to maintain their integrity. However, these strategies can impact their intrinsic catalytic activity. Here, we demonstrate that the in-situ formation ...

If one carries out a molecular simulation ofNparticlesusing periodic boundary conditions, linear momentum is conserved,and hence, the number of degrees of freedom is set to 3N-3. Inmost programs, this number of degrees of freedom is the defaultsetting. How ...

The Materials Genome Approach (MGA) aims to accelerate development of new materials by incorporating computational and data-driven approaches to reduce the cost of identification of optimal structures for a given application. Here, we use the MGA to guide ...

The copper paddle-wheel is the building unit of many metal organic frameworks. Because of the ability of the copper cations to attract polar molecules, copper paddle-wheels are promising for carbon dioxide adsorption and separation. They have therefore bee ...

For applications of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) such as gas storage and separation, flexibility is often seen as a parameter that can tune material performance. In this work we aim to determine the optimal flexibility for the shape selective separation ...

In this short review, some recent advances are discussed in the development of computational techniques to perform large-scale screening of materials for energy-related applications. We focus on carbon capture and methane storage in different classes of na ...

The need to reduce the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of fuels and lubricants has renewed interest in hydroisomerization processes. Here it is shown how recognizing the signature of individual alkane hydrocracking pathways enables delineating changes t ...

With the growth of natural gas as an energy source, upgrading CO2-contaminated supplies has become increasingly important. Here we develop a single metric that captures how well an adsorbent performs the separation of CH4 and CO2, and we then use this metr ...

Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions urgently requires the large-scale deployment of carbon-capture technologies. These technologies must separate CO2 from various sources and deliver it to different sinks1,2. The quest for optimal solutions for specifi ...

Hemoglobin (Hb)-based oxygen carriers are investigated as a potential alternative or supplement to regular blood transfusions, particularly in critical and life-threatening scenarios. These include situations like severe trauma in remote areas, battlefield ...

Homochiral metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are exceptional media for heterogeneous enantiodifferentiation processes. Modifying available achiral structure-bearing MOF scaffolds is a preferred method to extend this class of materials. Reported postsynthetic ...

Finding the optimal solid adsorbent to capture CO2 for a given source of CO(2 )and sink (destination) of CO2 is an interesting scientific and technological question. There are millions of materials to choose from and we lack the capacity to synthesize and ...

We present an efficient method to compute diffusion coefficients of multiparticle systems with strong interactions directly from the geometry and topology of the potential energy field of the migrating particles. The approach is tested on Li-ion diffusion ...

Porous covalent polymers are attracting increasing interest in the fields of gas adsorption, gas separation, and catalysis due to their fertile synthetic polymer chemistry, large internal surface areas, and ultrahigh hydrothermal stabilities. While precise ...

We present force fields developed from periodic density functional theory (DFT) calculations that can be used in classical molecular simulations to model M MOF-74 (M = Co, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ni, Zn) and its extended linker analogs. Our force fields are based on c ...

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What Are the Best Materials To Separate a Xenon/Krypton Mixture?

Applicability of Tail Corrections in the Molecular Simulations of Porous Materials

Taking lanthanides out of isolation: tuning the optical properties of metal-organic frameworks

How to Decarbonize Our Energy Systems: Process-Informed Design of New Materials for Carbon Capture

Tandem Hydroformylation-Aldol Condensation Reaction Enabled by Zn-MOF-74

Sustainable Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes to Anilines with Highly Active in-situ Generated Copper Nanoparticles

Effects of Degrees of Freedom on Calculating Diffusion Properties in Nanoporous Materials br

Toward a Materials Genome Approach for Ionic Liquids: Synthesis Guided by Ab Initio Property Maps

Origin of the Strong Interaction between Polar Molecules and Copper(II) Paddle-Wheels in Metal Organic Frameworks

The Influence of Intrinsic Framework Flexibility on Adsorption in Nanoporous Materials

Screening Materials Relevant for Energy Technologies

Toward Superior Hydroisomerization Catalysts through Thermodynamic Optimization

High-throughput computational screening of nanoporous adsorbents for CO2 capture from natural gas

A holistic platform for accelerating sorbent-based carbon capture

A novel PEG-mediated approach to entrap hemoglobin (Hb) within ZIF-8 nanoparticles: Balancing crystalline structure, Hb content and functionality

Nonuniform Chiralization of Metal-Organic Frameworks Using Imine Chemistry

Can we systematically screen millions of chemical structures for cost-effective carbon capture?

Predicting Ion Diffusion from the Shape of Potential Energy Landscapes

Systematic Tuning and Multifunctionalization of Covalent Organic Polymers for Enhanced Carbon Capture

Ab Initio Flexible Force Field for Metal-Organic Frameworks Using Dummy Model Coordination Bonds