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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 18, Issue 29, Pages 19605-19612Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6cp02477g
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- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) [ENE2014-56237-C4-4-R]
- Xunta de Galicia [GRC2014/042]
- European Research Council through an ERC Starting Grant [ERC2011-StG-279520-RASPA]
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In this work we use molecular dynamics simulations to study the diffusion of N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) and H2O as a function of temperature within the well-known metal- organic framework Co-2(dobdc)center dot[G] (G = 2DMF center dot 1H(2)O), also known as Co-MOF-74. The molecular dynamics simulations show that the diffusivity of guest molecules, which is almost negligible at low temperatures (T < 200 K), increases in the range of 200 < T (K) < 400 up to 3 and 4 orders of magnitude for DMF and H2O, respectively. This molecular diffusion can be easily detected by dielectric spectroscopy as it gives rise to extrinsic interfacial polarization effects that result in an apparent ''colossal'' dielectric constant at room temperature, epsilon(r)' similar to 42 000 (T = 300 K, nu = 10 Hz). Furthermore, the measured dielectric constant exhibits a thermal dependence similar to that of the diffusion coefficient, revealing the parallelism of the dielectric response and the molecular diffusion as a function of temperature. These results highlight: (a) the great utility of the fast and non-destructive dielectric and impedance spectroscopy techniques for the study and detection of the molecular transport of small polar molecules within porous metal-organic frameworks and related materials; (b) the peculiarity and uniqueness of MOF materials with ''medium'' size nanopores containing guest molecules as they are solid materials in which the guest molecules display a liquid state-like behaviour close to room temperature; and (c) the potential of these materials for molecular transport applications.
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