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Chemistry of Soft Porous Crystals: Structural Dynamics and Gas Adsorption Properties.

Simon KrauseNobuhiko HosonoSusumu Kitagawa
Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2020)
In this Minireview, we discuss the fundamental chemistry of soft porous crystals (SPCs) by characterizing their common structural features and the resulting structural softness and transitions. In particular, we focus on the recently emerging properties based on metastable transitions and those arising from local dynamics. By comparing the resulting adsorption properties to those of commonly applied rigid adsorbents, we highlight the potential of SPCs to revolutionize adsorption-based technologies, considering our current understanding of the thermodynamic and kinetic aspects. We provide brief outlines for the experimental and computational characterization of such phenomena and offer an outlook toward next-generation SPCs likely to be discovered in the next decade.
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