MFM-300 as High-Performance Sorbents for Water-Adsorption-Driven Cooling
Adsorption-driven heat transfer is potentially a sustainable technology to decarbonize heating and cooling. However, the development of high-performance adsorbent-adsorbate working pairs remains extremely challenging. Here, we report a metal-organic framework/water working pair that can operate at an ultralow driving temperature (62 °C), showing a high coefficient of performance (COP) of 0.8 for cooling. The desirable features of MFM-300(M) (M = Al, Fe, Cr, V) for water adsorption have been elucidated by combined crystallographic and spectroscopic techniques. <i>In situ</i> neutron powder diffraction reveals the structural evolution of the MFM-300-D<sub>2</sub>O system via direct observation of the location of D<sub>2</sub>O at different stages of adsorption. Host-guest binding dynamics have been interrogated by <i>in situ</i> solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and inelastic neutron scattering combined with modeling. This system promotes the use of renewable low-grade thermal energy rather than electricity to drive cooling.
Authors
- Daniel James Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1015-0980)
- Wanpeng Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3403-667X)
- Anibal Javier Ramirez-Cuesta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1231-0068)
- Iván da Silva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4472-9675)
- Yongqiang Q. Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3263-4812)
- Sihai Yang⧫ (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1111-9272)
- Martin Schröder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-0700)
- Pascal Manuel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-6576)
- Wenyuan Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3815-9263)
- Yinlin Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7878-2063)
- Guixiang Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8326-1120)
- Yuanjun Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2573-1144)
- Xue Han (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2190-9227)
- Luke L. Daemen
- Jiangnan Li
Institutions
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)
- Peking University (CN)
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Published
- 2025-04-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c16752
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Adsorption and Cooling Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.85
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- University of Manchester
- European Commission
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Beijing Normal University
- China Scholarship Council
- Peking University
- Office of Science
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- H2020 European Research Council