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MOFChecker: a package for validating and correcting metal-organic framework (MOF) structures.

Xin Jin, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Elias Moubarak, Yutao Li, Berend Smit

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Article in Digital discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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Xin JinLaboratory of Molecular Simulation (LSMO), Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland berend.smit@epfl.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2618-9775
Kevin Maik JablonkaLaboratory of Molecular Simulation (LSMO), Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland berend.smit@epfl.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4894-4660
Elias MoubarakLaboratory of Molecular Simulation (LSMO), Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland berend.smit@epfl.ch.
Yutao LiLaboratory of Molecular Simulation (LSMO), Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland berend.smit@epfl.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6251-815X
Berend SmitLaboratory of Molecular Simulation (LSMO), Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland berend.smit@epfl.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4653-8562

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Abstract

Metal-organic frameworks are promising porous materials for applications like gas adsorption, separation, transportation, and photocatalysis, but their large-scale computational screening requires high-quality, computation-ready structural data. Existing databases often contain errors due to experimental limitations, including inaccurately determined hydrogen positions, atomic overlaps, and missing components. We introduce MOFChecker to address these issues, providing tools for duplicate detection, geometric and charge error checking, and structure correction. Some errors can be systematically corrected through atomic adjustments on structures in the database, including deleting duplicated structures and adding missing hydrogen atoms, counterions, and linkers. Evaluation of established MOF databases, like the CoRE2014 database, indicates that 38% of structures contain significant errors, highlighting the importance of MOFChecker in ensuring accurate structural data for subsequent density functional theory (DFT) optimizations and computational studies. This work aims to enhance the reliability of MOF databases for high-throughput screening and practical applications.

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