Over
14 000 porous, three-dimensional metal–organic
framework structures are compiled and analyzed as a part of an update
to the Computation-Ready, Experimental Metal–Organic Framework
Database (CoRE MOF Database). The updated database includes additional
structures that were contributed by CoRE MOF users, obtained from
updates of the Cambridge Structural Database and a Web of Science
search, and derived through semiautomated reconstruction of disordered
structures using a topology-based crystal generator. In addition,
value is added to the CoRE MOF database through new analyses that
can speed up future nanoporous materials discovery activities, including
open metal site detection and duplicate searches. Crystal structures
(only for the subset that underwent significant changes during curation),
pore analytics, and physical property data are included with the publicly
available CoRE MOF 2019 database.
The first principles approaches, density functional theory (DFT) and quantum Monte Carlo, have been used to examine the balance between van der Waals (vdW) forces and hydrogen (H) bonding in ambient and high pressure phases of ice. At higher pressure, the contribution to the lattice energy from vdW increases and that from H bonding decreases, leading vdW to have a substantial effect on the transition pressures between the crystalline ice phases. An important consequence, likely to be of relevance to molecular crystals in general, is that transition pressures obtained from DFT functionals which neglect vdW forces are greatly overestimated.
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