Exploring the Structural, Dynamic, and Functional Properties of Metal‐Organic Frameworks through Molecular Modeling

F Formalik, K Shi, F Joodaki, X Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This review spotlights the role of atomic‐level modeling in research on metal‐organic
frameworks (MOFs), especially the key methodologies of density functional theory (DFT) …

Computational Modeling of Reticular Materials: The Past, the Present, and the Future

W Temmerman, R Goeminne, KS Rawat… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reticular materials rely on a unique building concept where inorganic and organic building
units are stitched together giving access to an almost limitless number of structured ordered …

The role of phonons in switchable MOFs: a model material perspective

AEJ Hoffman, I Senkovska, L Abylgazina… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The large cell volume changes of switchable metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) render them
as promising functional materials. Low-frequency phonon modes are known to influence the …

Understanding the phase transition mechanism in the lead halide perovskite CsPbBr3 via theoretical and experimental GIWAXS and Raman spectroscopy

AEJ Hoffman, RA Saha, S Borgmans, P Puech… - Apl Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Metal-halide perovskites (MHPs) exhibit excellent properties for application in optoelectronic
devices. The bottleneck for their incorporation is the lack of long-term stability such as …

Terahertz Spectroscopy Unambiguously Determines the Orientation of Guest Water Molecules in a Structurally Elusive Metal–Organic Framework

SA Ajibade, L Catalano, J Kölbel… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Porous materials, particularly metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), hold great promise for
advanced applications. MIL-53 (Al) is an exceptionally well-studied MOF that exhibits a …

A critical assessment on calculating vibrational spectra in nanostructured materials

AEJ Hoffman, W Temmerman, E Campbell… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Vibrational spectroscopy is an omnipresent spectroscopic technique to characterize
functional nanostructured materials such as zeolites, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) …

Local and global dynamics in organic soft porous crystals

E Hernández-Santiago, J Espinosa-Rocha… - Matter, 2024 - cell.com
Organic soft porous crystals (OSPCs) have garnered significant attention for their potential
applications in guest capture, gas storage, separation, and modulated optoelectronics. The …

Intelligent microsphere-gel structures: Pioneering multi-range temperature sensing technology

X Peng, Z Dai, Q Zhang, S Gao, N Li - Applied Materials Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Microsphere-gel materials, a distinct class of functional materials, exhibit exceptional
temperature sensing capabilities. This review delves into the advancement of temperature …

Fluorinated Hafnium and Zirconium Coenable the Tunable Biodegradability of Core–Multishell Heterogeneous Nanocrystals for Bioimaging

Q Wang, H Shangguan, H Yu, X Rong, B Zhou… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Upconversion (UC)/downconversion (DC)-luminescent lanthanide-doped nanocrystals
(LDNCs) with near-infrared (NIR, 650–1700 nm) excitation have been gaining increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Terahertz spectroscopy of MOFs reveals dynamic structure and contact free ultrafast photoconductivity

K Hamilton, J Neu - APL Materials, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous crystalline materials. Their large pores make
them particularly interesting for membranes, gas separation, and gas storage. Furthermore …