Water Adsorption in Flexible Gallium-Based MIL-53 Metal–Organic Framework

CATEGORY: MOF - METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS 
Water Adsorption in Flexible Gallium-Based MIL-53 Metal–Organic Framework

Type	Journal Article
Author	François-Xavier Coudert
Author	Aurélie U. Ortiz
URL	http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp412433a
Volume	118
Issue	10
Pages	5397-5405
Publication	The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Date	March 13, 2014
Abstract	Understanding the adsorption of water in metal organic frameworks (MOF), and particularly in soft porous crystals, is criticall when considering MOFs for industrial applications. Authors describe a joint experimental and theoretical study on the behavior of a gallium-based breathing MOF, Ga-MIL-53, upon water adsorption. By observing the energetics and thermodynamics of Ga-MIL-53, they explain why it behaves differently from its sibling Al-MIL-53, showing a different phase at room temperature and the presence of a hydrated narrow-pore structure at gas saturation pressure.