Projects per year
Abstract
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.
Rational design and development of porous materials for adsorptive gas separation gains ever-increasing attention as industrial applications, such as carbon capture and natural gas purification, always require more energy-efficient processes with adsorbents providing high selectivity. Zeolite molecular sieves represent a class of such desirable adsorbents. Our recently discovered molecular trapdoor mechanism in zeolites allows for unprecedented high selectivity and affords designability for versatile adsorbents. In this work, we presented a route for identifying the molecular trapdoor mechanism and predicting the gas separation feasibility using density functional theory calculations, based on a typical molecule trapdoor zeolite - caesium-exchanged chabazite with silicon to aluminium ratio of 3. We established criteria to assess the viability for "door-open" process by examining the dependence of energy barriers for the movement of "door-keeping" cation in the presence of different gases. Calculations at the standard PBE level and the van der Waals DFT levels were carried out. This theoretical route could serve as a standard method to study and develop other molecular trapdoor zeolites.
Rational design and development of porous materials for adsorptive gas separation gains ever-increasing attention as industrial applications, such as carbon capture and natural gas purification, always require more energy-efficient processes with adsorbents providing high selectivity. Zeolite molecular sieves represent a class of such desirable adsorbents. Our recently discovered molecular trapdoor mechanism in zeolites allows for unprecedented high selectivity and affords designability for versatile adsorbents. In this work, we presented a route for identifying the molecular trapdoor mechanism and predicting the gas separation feasibility using density functional theory calculations, based on a typical molecule trapdoor zeolite - caesium-exchanged chabazite with silicon to aluminium ratio of 3. We established criteria to assess the viability for "door-open" process by examining the dependence of energy barriers for the movement of "door-keeping" cation in the presence of different gases. Calculations at the standard PBE level and the van der Waals DFT levels were carried out. This theoretical route could serve as a standard method to study and develop other molecular trapdoor zeolites.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 307-313 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Computational Materials Science |
Volume | 122 |
Early online date | 13 Jun 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sep 2016 |
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'A density functional theory study for the adsorption of various gases on a caesium-exchanged trapdoor chabazite'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
- 1 Finished