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  • Title: A novel method to measure diffusion coefficients in porous metal-organic frameworks.
    Author: Zybaylo O, Shekhah O, Wang H, Tafipolsky M, Schmid R, Johannsmann D, Wöll C.
    Journal: Phys Chem Chem Phys; 2010 Jul 28; 12(28):8092-7. PubMed ID: 20532258.
    Abstract:
    We present a novel method to determine diffusion constants of small molecules within highly porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The method is based on the recently proposed liquid-phase epitaxy (LPE) process to grow MOF thin films (SURMOFs) on appropriately functionalized substrates, in particular on organic surfaces exposed by thiolate-based self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). By applying the LPE-method to SAM-coated quartz crystals, the time-dependence of the mass-uptake of the MOF when exposing it to a gas is measured by a quartz-crystal microbalance (QCM). The homogenous nature of the SURMOFs together with their well-defined thickness allow to analyze the QCM-data using Fickian diffusion to yield the diffusion constant. We demonstrate the potential of this method for the case of pyridine diffusion within HKUST-1 (Cu(3)(BTC)(2)) MOF, for which the diffusion coefficient at room temperature is found to amount to 1.5 x 10(-19) m(2) s(-1). Assuming a Fickian diffusion and a hopping mechanism, we yield a binding energy of 0.78 eV of the pyridine to the Cu(2+) sites within the HKUST-1 MOF, a value in good agreement with the results of precise ab initio quantum chemistry calculations.
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