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MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Volume 254, Issue -, Pages 184-191Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2017.02.031
Keywords
MOF/polymer interface; Defects at MOF surfaces; Molecular dynamics; Density functional theory; Mixed-matrix membranes; ZIF-8; PIM-1; PIM-EA-TB
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- European Community Seventh Program [608490]
- Institut Universitaire de France
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The influence of defects at the metal-organic framework (MOF) surface on the microscopic structure of a MOF/polymer composite has been studied by a computational methodology that combines density functional theory calculations with force field-based molecular dynamics simulations. This has been applied to composites formed by ZIF-8 and two different polymers of intrinsic microporosity: PIM-1 and PIM-EA-TB. Analysis of the MOF/polymer interactions, surface coverage, polymer conformation/stiffness and a full characterization of the interfacial voids are provided. We found that, although the nature of the MOF/polymer interactions changes in the presence of defects, the coverage and conformation of the polymer, as well as the morphology of the interfacial microvoids remain practically unchanged from a microscopic point of view. These results suggest that there is no microscopic evidence that defective MOF surfaces drastically change the geometry of the MOF/polymer interface and the strength of the physisorption-type interactions in play. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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