• High-throughput computational screening of nanoporous adsorbents for CO 2 capture from natural gas 

      Braun, Efrem; Zurhelle, Alexander; Thijssen, Wouter; Schnell, Sondre Kvalvåg; Lin, Li-Chiang; Kim, Jihan; Thompson, Joshua; Smit, Berend (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      With the growth of natural gas as an energy source, upgrading CO2-contaminated supplies has become increasingly important. Here we develop a single metric that captures how well an adsorbent performs the separation of CH4 ...
    • Nanoporous materials can tune the critical point of a pure substance 

      Braun, Efrem; Chen, Joseph J.; Schnell, Sondre Kvalvåg; Lin, Li-Chiang; Reimer, Jeffrey A.; Smit, Berend (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Molecular simulations and NMR relaxometry experiments demonstrate that pure benzene or xylene confined in isoreticular metal–organic frameworks (IRMOFs) exhibit true vapor–liquid phase equilibria where the effective critical ...
    • Translational and Rotational Motion of C8 Aromatics Adsorbed in Isotropic Porous Media (MOF-5): NMR Studies and MD Simulations 

      Witherspoon, Velencia J.; Yu, Lucy M.; Jawahery, Sudi; Braun, Efrem; Moosavi, Seyed Mohamad; Schnell, Sondre Kvalvåg; Smit, Berend; Reimer, Jeffrey A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      We combined nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to study xylene behavior in MOF-5, probing the effects of adsorbate geometry in a weakly interacting model isotropic metal organic framework ...