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Much of our understanding of complex structures is based on simplification: for example, metal-organic frameworks are often discussed in the context of "nodes" and "linkers", allowing for a qualitative comparison with simpler inorganic…
Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs) are a family of metal--organic frameworks that feature metal centers tetrahedrally linked to imidazole-based ligands and adopt zeolite-like topologies. ZIFs formed by Zinc cations and imidazolate…
Amorphous metal-organic frameworks are an important emerging materials class that combine the attractive physical properties of the amorphous state with the versatility of metal-organic framework (MOF) chemistry. The structures of amorphous…
The zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIF) have emerged as a promising candidate for catalysis, carbon-dioxide (CO$_{2}$) capture and storage as well as flue gas separation due to their tunable porosity and chemical stability. ZIFs consists…
Glass formation in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs) has garnered significant attention in the field of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) in recent years. Numerous works have been conducted to investigate the microscopic mechanisms…
Zn(imidazolate)$_2$ metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) exhibit a remarkable degree of polymorphism. Because of their promising industrial applications, many research groups have investigated phase transitions, phase diagram and relative…
The synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in a monolithic morphology is a promising way to achieve the transition of this class of materials from academia to industrial applications. The sol-gel process has been widely employed to…
We show that ZIF-4, a metal-organic framework (MOF) with a zeolitic structure, undergoes a crystal--amorphous transition on heating to 300 $^\circ$C. The amorphous form, which we term a-ZIF, is recoverable to ambient conditions or may be…
We have theoretically investigated the elastic properties of three topologically identical zeolitic imidazolate frameworks: ZIF-4, ZIF-62 and TIF-4, by means of ab initio calculations. The ZIFs are a subset of metal organic frameworks…
Structurally and chemically complex materials such as amorphous metallosilicates underpin major catalytic and separation technologies, yet their intrinsic complexity challenges reliable atomistic modeling under realistic conditions.…
Decoding the self-assembly mechanism of metal-organic frameworks is a crucial step in reducing trial-and-error tests in their synthesis protocols. Atomistic simulations have proven essential in revealing molecular-level features of MOF…
We develop a machine-learning method for coarse-graining condensed-phase molecular systems using anisotropic particles. The method extends currently available high-dimensional neural network potentials by addressing molecular anisotropy. We…
Traditional atomistic machine learning (ML) models serve as surrogates for quantum mechanical (QM) properties, predicting quantities such as dipole moments and polarizabilities, directly from compositions and geometries of atomic…
New metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are periodically synthesized all over the world due to the wide range of societally and environmentally relevant applications they possess. However, the mechanisms and thermodynamics associated to MOF…
We introduce a generalized machine learning framework to probabilistically parameterize upper-scale models in the form of nonlinear PDEs consistent with a continuum theory, based on coarse-grained atomistic simulation data of mechanical…
Atomistic or ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations are widely used to predict thermodynamics and kinetics and relate them to molecular structure. A common approach to go beyond the time- and length-scales accessible with such…
Metal--organic frameworks (MOFs) are a family of chemically diverse materials, with applications in a wide range of fields covering engineering, physics, chemistry, biology and medicine. Research so far has focused almost entirely on…
In this contribution, the well-known MARTINI particle-based coarse graining approach is tested for its ability to model the ZIF-8 metal-organic framework. Its capability to describe structure, lattice parameters, thermal expansion, elastic…
Theoretical studies on the experimental feasibility of hypothetical Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIF) have focused so far on relative energy of various polymorphs, by energy minimization at the quantum chemical level. We present here a…
We introduce a machine-learning framework termed coarse-grained all-atom force field (CGAA-FF), which incorporates coarse-grained message passing within an all-atom force field using equivariant nature of graph models. The CGAA-FF model…