Understanding gas adsorption selectivity in IRMOF-8 using molecular simulation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 624-637

  Pillai, Renjith S ^a   Pinto, Moisés L ^a,b   Pires, João ^c   Jorge, Miguel ^d   Gomes, José R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide methane separation; Ethane ethylene separation; gas adsorption; Grand canonical Monte Carlo; Interpenetrated; Metal organic frameworks

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BINARY MIXTURES; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ETHANE; ETHYLENE; GAS ADSORPTION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ISOTHERMS; METHANE; ORGANIC POLYMERS; ORGANOMETALLICS; SEPARATION; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ADSORPTION SELECTIVITY; ANALYSIS OF SIMULATIONS; GRAND CANONICAL MONTE CARLO; GRAND CANONICAL MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; INTERPENETRATED; ISORETICULAR METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS; METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84921285723     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506793b     Document Type: Article

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