Journal
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
Volume 5, Issue 9, Pages 7887-7893Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b01429
Keywords
Metal-organic frameworks; HKUST-1; Supercritical CO2; Expanded liquid phases; Hierarchical porosity
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- Vietnamese Government
- University of Bristol
- University of Bath
- Nanyang Technological University
- Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies at the University of Bath
- Royal Society
- Nanyang Technological University (AcRF Tier1)
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It is shown that a crystalline metal organic framework (HKUST-1) can be rapidly synthesized from a DMSO/MeOH solution with greatly reduced amounts of organic solvents using a supercritical CO2 (scCO(2)) solvent expansion technique. The precursor solution is stable for months under ambient conditions, and CO2-driven MOF (metal organic framework) crystallization is achieved under mild conditions (40 degrees C, 40-100 bar) with excellent reproducibility. As the degree of liquid-phase expansion drives MOF nucleation and growth, the crystallite size and overall yield can be tuned by adjusting the CO2 pressure. Furthermore, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), and gas sorption analyses showed that, in the presence of scCO2, HKUST-1 crystallites with a hierarchical pore structure are generated through a postcrystallization etching process. These findings demonstrate that scCO(2) is a time- and material-efficient route to MOF synthesis with a high level of control over the crystallization process for accessing tailored material properties.
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