Efficient Kr/Xe separation from triangular g-C3N4 nanopores: density-functional theory calculations benchmarked with random phase approximation

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  <dc:creator>Tohidivahdat, Mohammad</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Campi, Davide</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Colonna, Nicola</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Villalobos, Luis Francisco</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Marzari, Nicola</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Agrawal Varoon, Kumar</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2021-02-07</dc:date>
  <dc:description>Poly(triazine imide) or PTI is a promising material for molecular sieving membranes, thanks to its atom-thick ordered lattice with an extremely high density (1.6 × 10^14 pores/cm2) of triangular-shaped nanopores of ~0.34 nm diameter. Here, we investigate the application of PTI nanopores in the purification of Kr from Xe to reduce the storage volume of the mixture of 85Kr/Xe. Using van-der-Waals density-functional theory (vdW-DFT) calculations, benchmarked against the random phase approximation (RPA), we calculate the potential energy profiles for Kr and Xe across the nanopores. For each gas, starting from the RPA potential-energy profile, the force-field parameters to be used in the classical molecular dynamics framework are trained to calculate the Helmholtz free energy barrier as a function of temperature, and therefore, the corresponding entropic loss. Overall, due to the much higher activation energy from the adsorbed state in Xe (17.61 and 42.10 kJ/mole for Kr and Xe, respectively), a large Kr/Xe separation selectivity is postulated from the PTI membrane. Furthermore, the combination of atom-thick PTI lattice and high pore density leads to extremely large yet selective permeances for Kr. For example, Kr permeance of 1000 gas permeation units (GPU) accompanying a large Kr/Xe selectivity (&gt;10000) is calculated at 25 °C, significantly better than the state-of-the-art membranes for Kr/Xe separation, making PTI-based membranes a leading candidate to process the hazardous waste of 85Kr/Xe mixture.</dc:description>
  <dc:identifier>https://archive.materialscloud.org/record/2021.30</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.24435/materialscloud:vp-ms</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>mcid:2021.30</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>oai:materialscloud.org:735</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Materials Cloud</dc:publisher>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode</dc:rights>
  <dc:subject>carbon nitrides</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>nanoscale transport</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>density-functional theory</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>random phase approximation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>van-der-Waals approximations</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>MARVEL</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>EPFL</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>SNSF</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>CSCS</dc:subject>
  <dc:title>Efficient Kr/Xe separation from triangular g-C3N4 nanopores: density-functional theory calculations benchmarked with random phase approximation</dc:title>
  <dc:type>Dataset</dc:type>
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