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LANGMUIR
卷 28, 期 11, 页码 5093-5100出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la205063f
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资金
- MEXT
- JSPS
- Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Programs
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21360379] Funding Source: KAKEN
Specific types of coordination polymers show an adsorption-induced structural transition, or so-called gate adsorption, in which a host framework is said to change its structure from a closed nonporous phase to an open porous one for guest molecules. To identify the pathway for such a structural transition, we perform grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations for the adsorption of guest molecules in a host interpenetrated framework and calculate the free energy profiles of the structural changes in a complete three-dimensional space. In addition to the open phase found in our previous analyses along a fixed one-dimensional path, we reveal the existence of another open configuration. Each of the two open phases yields the status of global minimum to the other depending on the external pressure, resulting in a two-step isotherm. Moreover, the shape of adsorption hysteresis associated with the structural transition can change depending on the energy barrier between a metastable and a stable state that the system can overcome. Our simulations not only give a comprehensive understanding of stepped isotherms observed empirically but also suggest that isotherms with hysteretic gate adsorption is closely related to the thermal fluctuation of the system.
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