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Cai, Wanxi; Lee, Taehee; Lee, Maro; Cho, Woosuk; Han, Doug-Young; Choi, Nakwon; Yip, Alex C. K; Choi, Jungkyu
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 06/2014, Volume: 136, Issue: 22Journal Article
As a subset of the metal–organic frameworks, zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) have potential use in practical separations as a result of flexible yet reliable control over their pore sizes along with their chemical and thermal stabilities. Among many ZIF materials, we explored the effect of thermal treatments on the ZIF-7 structure, known for its promising characteristics toward H2 separations; the pore sizes of ZIF-7 (0.29 nm) are desirable for molecular sieving, favoring H2 (0.289 nm) over CO2 (0.33 nm). Although thermogravimetric analysis indicated that ZIF-7 is thermally stabile up to ∼400 °C, the structural transition of ZIF-7 to an intermediate phase (as indicated by X-ray analysis) was observed under air as guest molecules were removed. The transition was further continued at higher temperatures, eventually leading toward the zinc oxide phase. Three types of ZIF-7 with differing shapes and sizes (∼100 nm spherical, ∼400 nm rhombic-dodecahedral, and ∼1300 nm rod-shaped) were employed to elucidate (1) thermal structural transitions while considering kinetically relevant processes and (2) discrepancies in the N2 physisorption and CO2 adsorption isotherms. The largest rod-shaped ZIF-7 particles showed a delayed thermal structural transition toward the stable zinc oxide phase. The CO2 adsorption behaviors of the three ZIF-7s, despite their identical crystal structures, suggested minute differences in the pore structures; in particular, the smaller spherical ZIF-7 particles provided reversible CO2 adsorption isotherms at ∼30–75 °C, a typical temperature range of flue gases from coal-fired power plants, in contrast to the larger rhombic-dodecahedral and rod-shaped ZIF-7 particles, which exhibited hysteretic CO2 adsorption/desorption behavior.
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