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Fundamental Problems In Porous Materials: Experiments & Computer Simulation, Zhanping Xu
Fundamental Problems In Porous Materials: Experiments & Computer Simulation, Zhanping Xu
Department of Engineering Mechanics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Porous materials have attracted massive scientific and technological interest because of their extremely high surface-to-volume ratio, molecular tunability in construction, and surface-based applications. Through my PhD work, porous materials were engineered to meet the design in selective binding, self-healing, and energy damping. For example, crystalline MOFs with pore size spanning from a few angstroms to a couple of nanometers were chemically engineered to show 120 times more efficiency in binding of large molecules. In addition, we found building blocks released from those crystals can be further patched back through a healing process at ambient and low temperatures down to -56 …