Issue 2, 2015

Experimental evidence of negative linear compressibility in the MIL-53 metal–organic framework family

Abstract

We report a series of powder X-ray diffraction experiments performed on the soft porous crystals MIL-53(Al) and NH2-MIL-53(Al) in a diamond anvil cell under different pressurization media. Systematic refinements of the obtained powder patterns demonstrate that these materials expand along a specific direction while undergoing total volume reduction under an increasing hydrostatic pressure. The results confirm for the first time the negative linear compressibility behaviour of this family of materials, recently predicted from quantum chemical calculations.

Graphical abstract: Experimental evidence of negative linear compressibility in the MIL-53 metal–organic framework family

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
03 3 2014
Accepted
24 3 2014
First published
24 3 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

CrystEngComm, 2015,17, 276-280

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Experimental evidence of negative linear compressibility in the MIL-53 metal–organic framework family

P. Serra-Crespo, A. Dikhtiarenko, E. Stavitski, J. Juan-Alcañiz, F. Kapteijn, F. Coudert and J. Gascon, CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 276 DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00436A

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