Selective nitrogen capture by porous hybrid materials containing accessible transition metal ion sites

Ji Woong Yoon; Hyunju Chang; Seung Joon Lee; Young Kyu Hwang; Do Young Hong; Su Kyung Lee; Ji Sun Lee; Seunghun Jang; Tae Ung Yoon; Kijeong Kwac; Yousung Jung; Renjith S. Pillai; Florian Faucher; Alexandre Vimont; Marco Daturi; Gérard Férey; Christian Serre; Guillaume Maurin; Youn Sang Bae; Jong San Chang

doi:10.1038/nmat4825

Selective nitrogen capture by porous hybrid materials containing accessible transition metal ion sites

Ji Woong Yoon, Hyunju Chang, Seung Joon Lee, Young Kyu Hwang, Do Young Hong, Su Kyung Lee, Ji Sun Lee, Seunghun Jang, Tae Ung Yoon, Kijeong Kwac, Yousung Jung, Renjith S. Pillai, Florian Faucher, Alexandre Vimont, Marco Daturi, Gérard Férey, Christian Serre, Guillaume Maurin, Youn Sang Bae, Jong San Chang

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Abstract

Selective dinitrogen binding to transition metal ions mainly covers two strategic domains: biological nitrogen fixation catalysed by metalloenzyme nitrogenases, and adsorptive purification of natural gas and air. Many transition metal-dinitrogen complexes have been envisaged for biomimetic nitrogen fixation to produce ammonia. Inspired by this concept, here we report mesoporous metal-organic framework materials containing accessible Cr(III) sites, able to thermodynamically capture N₂ over CH₄ and O₂. This fundamental study integrating advanced experimental and computational tools confirmed that the separation mechanism for both N₂/CH₄ and N₂/O₂ gas mixtures is driven by the presence of these unsaturated Cr(III) sites that allows a much stronger binding of N₂ over the two other gases. Besides the potential breakthrough in adsorption-based technologies, this proof of concept could open new horizons to address several challenges in chemistry, including the design of heterogeneous biomimetic catalysts through nitrogen fixation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	526-531
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nature materials
Volume	16
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4825
Publication status	Published - 2017 May 1

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We would like to acknowledge the financial support from the R&D Convergence Program (CRC-14-1-KRICT) of MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning) and NST (National Research Council of Science & Technology) of Republic of Korea. KRICT authors thank the Global Frontier Center for Hybrid Interface Materials (GFHIM) for its financial support (Grant No. NRF-2013M3A6B1078879). M.D., G.M. and C.S. thank CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) for its financial support. RGN members acknowledge the financial support through the DRC Program (SKM-1503) funded by NST (National Research Council of Science & Technology) of Korea. G.M. thanks Institut Universitaire de France for its support. Y.J. acknowledges the support from the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2016M3D1A1021147). We thank CCME members for their contributions to the synthesis and characterization of MIL-100(M) samples. J.-S.C. also thanks Y.-U. Kwon (SKKU) for his comment on artificial N2 fixation.

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Yoon, J. W., Chang, H., Lee, S. J., Hwang, Y. K., Hong, D. Y., Lee, S. K., Lee, J. S., Jang, S., Yoon, T. U., Kwac, K., Jung, Y., Pillai, R. S., Faucher, F., Vimont, A., Daturi, M., Férey, G., Serre, C., Maurin, G., Bae, Y. S., & Chang, J. S. (2017). Selective nitrogen capture by porous hybrid materials containing accessible transition metal ion sites. Nature materials, 16(5), 526-531. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4825

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