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ArticleNature materials2024

Enhanced elastic stability of a topologically disordered crystalline metal-organic framework.

Emily G Meekel, Phillippa Partridge, Robert A I Paraoan, Joshua J B Levinsky, Ben Slater, Claire L Hobday, Andrew L Goodwin

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Article in Nature materials, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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Emily G MeekelInorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9452-0653
Phillippa PartridgeCentre for Science at Extreme Conditions and EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Robert A I ParaoanInorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-6108-4655
Joshua J B LevinskyCentre for Science at Extreme Conditions and EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3247-1803
Ben SlaterDepartment of Chemistry, University College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9738-5848
Claire L HobdayCentre for Science at Extreme Conditions and EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4925-4557
Andrew L GoodwinInorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. andrew.goodwin@chem.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9231-3749

Funding

EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council) 788144Research Councils UK (RCUK) MR/V/026070/1Royal Society IF160062
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Abstract

By virtue of their open network structures and low densities, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are soft materials that exhibit elastic instabilities at low applied stresses. The conventional strategy for improving elastic stability is to increase the connectivity of the underlying MOF network, which necessarily increases the material density and reduces the porosity. Here we demonstrate an alternative paradigm, whereby elastic stability is enhanced in a MOF with an aperiodic network topology. We use a combination of variable-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction measurements and coarse-grained lattice-dynamical calculations to interrogate the high-pressure behaviour of the topologically aperiodic system TRUMOF-1, which we compare against that of its ordered congener MOF-5. We show that the topology of the former quenches the elastic instability responsible for pressure-induced framework collapse in the latter, much as irregularity in the shapes and sizes of stones acts to prevent cooperative mechanical failure in drystone walls. Our results establish aperiodicity as a counter-intuitive design motif in engineering the mechanical properties of framework structures that is relevant to MOFs and larger-scale architectures alike.

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