A microporous metal-organic framework of a rare sty topology for high CH4 storage at room temperature

Xing Duan; Jiancan Yu; Jianfeng Cai; Yabing He; Chuande Wu; Wei Zhou; Taner Yildirim; Zhangjing Zhang; Shengchang Xiang; Michael O'Keeffe; Banglin Chen; Guodong Qian

doi:10.1039/c3cc38765h

A microporous metal-organic framework of a rare sty topology for high CH4 storage at room temperature

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Mar 11;49(20):2043-5. doi: 10.1039/c3cc38765h.

Authors

Xing Duan¹, Jiancan Yu, Jianfeng Cai, Yabing He, Chuande Wu, Wei Zhou, Taner Yildirim, Zhangjing Zhang, Shengchang Xiang, Michael O'Keeffe, Banglin Chen, Guodong Qian

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.

PMID: 23385349
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc38765h

Abstract

A rare sty type microporous metal-organic framework, Cu(2)(FDDI) (; H(4)FDDI = tetramethyl 5,5'-(9H-fluorene-2,7-diyl)diisophthalate acid), was solvothermally synthesized and structurally characterized. With open metal sites and suitable pore space for their interactions with methane molecules, exhibits absolute methane storage of 180 cm(3)(STP) cm(-3) at room temperature and 35 bar, enabling it to be one of the very few porous MOFs whose methane storage capacities have met and/or approached the DOE target of 180 cm(3)(STP) cm(-3) for material-based methane storage.