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    Reversible Phase Transformations in a Double-Walled Diamondoid Coordination Network with a Stepped Isotherm for Methane


    Li, Xia, Sensharma, Debobroto, Loots, Leigh, Geng, Shubo, Javannikkhah, Sousa, Lin, En, Bon, Volodymyr, Liu, Wansheng, Wang, Zhifang, He, Tao, Mukherjee, Soumya, Vandichel, Matthias, Kaskel, Stefan, Barbour, Leonard J., Zhang, Zhenjie and Zaworotko, Michael J. (2024) Reversible Phase Transformations in a Double-Walled Diamondoid Coordination Network with a Stepped Isotherm for Methane. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146 (27). pp. 18387-18395. ISSN 0002-7863

    Abstract

    Flexible metal–organic materials (FMOMs) with stepped isotherms can offer enhanced working capacity in storage applications such as adsorbed natural gas (ANG) storage. Unfortunately, whereas >1000 FMOMs are known, only a handful exhibit methane uptake of >150 cm3/cm3 at 65 atm and 298 K, conditions relevant to ANG. Here, we report a double-walled 2-fold interpenetrated diamondoid (dia) network, X-dia-6-Ni, [Ni2L4(μ-H2O)]n, comprising a new azo linker ligand, L– (L– = (E)-3-(pyridin-4-yldiazenyl)benzoate) and 8-connected dinuclear molecular building blocks. X-dia-6-Ni exhibited gas (CO2, N2, CH4) and liquid (C8 hydrocarbons)-induced reversible transformations between its activated narrow-pore β phase and γ, a large-pore phase with ca. 33% increase in unit cell volume. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) studies of the as-synthesized phase α, β, and γ revealed that structural transformations were enabled by twisting of the azo moiety and/or deformation of the MBB. Further insight into these transformations was gained from variable temperature powder XRD and in situ variable pressure powder XRD. Low-temperature N2 and CO2 sorption revealed stepped Type F–II isotherms with saturation uptakes of 422 and 401 cm3/g, respectively. X-dia-6-Ni exhibited uptake of 200 cm3/cm3 (65 atm, 298 K) and a high CH4 working capacity of 166 cm3/cm3 (5–65 bar, 298 K, 33 cycles), the third highest value yet reported for an FMOM and the highest value for an FMOM with a Type F–II isotherm.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Reversible; Phase Transformations; Double-Walled Diamondoid; Coordination Network; Stepped Isotherm; Methane;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science & Engineering > Chemistry
    Faculty of Science & Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
    Faculty of Science & Engineering > Research Institutes > Human Health Institute
    Item ID: 21503
    Identification Number: 10.1021/jacs.4c03555
    Depositing User: Sousa Javannikkhah
    Date Deposited: 05 May 2026 15:49
    Journal or Publication Title: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Publisher: American Chemical Society
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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