Print Email Facebook Twitter Experimental evidence of negative linear compressibility in the MIL-53 metal–organic framework family Title Experimental evidence of negative linear compressibility in the MIL-53 metal–organic framework family Author Serra-Crespo, P. Dikhtiarenko, A. Stavitski, E. Juan-Alcañiz, J. Kapteijn, F. Coudert, F.X. Gascon, J. Faculty Applied Sciences Department ChemE/Catalysis Engineering Date 2014-03-24 Abstract We report a series of powder X-ray diffraction experiments performed on the soft porous crystals MIL-53(Al) and NH2-MIL-53(Al) in a diamond anvil cell under different pressurization media. Systematic refinements of the obtained powder patterns demonstrate that these materials expand along a specific direction while undergoing total volume reduction under an increasing hydrostatic pressure. The results confirm for the first time the negative linear compressibility behaviour of this family of materials, recently predicted from quantum chemical calculations. Subject Gold for GoldOpen Access To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f84e6eae-a556-474c-a8ca-13f769e9ddbf DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CE00436A Publisher RSC Publishing ISSN 1466-8033 Source CrystEngComm, 17 (2), 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2014 RSC Files PDF c4ce00436a.pdf 1.24 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f84e6eae-a556-474c-a8ca-13f769e9ddbf/datastream/OBJ/view