The Moment-of-Fluid (MOF) method is a new volume-tracking method that accurately treats evolving material interfaces. The MOF method uses moment data, namely the material volume fraction, as well as the centroid, for a more accurate representation of the material configuration, interfaces and concomitant volume advection. In contrast, the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method uses only volume fraction d...

A new urea-containing metal-organic framework (MOF) was synthesized to act as a heterogeneous catalyst. Ureas are well-known for self-recognition and aggregation behavior, resulting in loss of catalytic competency. The catalyst spatial isolation achievable in a porous MOF environment suggests a potentially general solution. The combination of a symmetrical urea tetracarboxylate strut, 4,4'-bipy...

The necessity of interoperability among Petri net tools has led to the development of the PNML (Petri Net Markup Language) standard. By adopting PNML, tools mainly concentrated on modeling activities should generate PNML files to be analyzed by analysis-specific Petri net tools. In this context, we propose an extension to the PNML based on MOF (Meta Object Facility). The implementation of the M...

Two rht-type metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) based upon the tetrazolate moiety and pyrazolate moiety, respectively, have been investigated for carbon dioxide (CO2) adsorption and selective adsorption of CO2 over CH4, which shows that the rht-MOF featuring the pyrazolate moiety demonstrates superior performances compared to the rht-MOF based on the tetrazolate moiety. In spite of more exposed ni...

The preparation of redox-active metal-organic framework (ra-MOF)-supported Pd nanoparticles (NPs) via the redox couple-driven method is reported, which can yield unprotected metallic NPs at room temperature within 10 min without the use of reducing agents. The Pd@ra-MOF has been exploited as a precursor of an active catalyst for CO oxidation. Under the CO oxidation reaction condition, Pd@ra-MOF...

Electroreduction of oxoanions affords hydroxide equivalents that induce selective deposition of crystalline metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on conductive surfaces. The method is illustrated by cathodic electrodeposition of Zn(4)O(BDC)(3) (MOF-5; BDC = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate), which is deposited at room temperature in only 15 min under cathodic potential. Although many crystalline phases are k...

An efficient synthetic route to an A1/A2-difunctionalized pillar[5]arene containing resolvable planar chirality has been developed and the arene employed as a strut in the synthesis of P5A-MOF-1, which has been demonstrated by X-ray powder diffraction analysis--supported by modeling--to be isoreticular with MOF-5. This metal-organic framework has an active domain that expresses good and selecti...

This paper describes a distributed versioning model, DVM, suitable for the OMG Meta Object Facilities (MOF). We show that the commonly used versioning model, such as CVS, is not sufficient for MOF (and nor is the one proposed in the response [14] to OMG RFP for MOF 2.0 versioning) and propose a solution based on location identifications and sequence numbers together with the rules for creating ...

Alexander N. Poddubny,1,2 Pavel A. Belov,1,3 and Yuri S. Kivshar1,4 1Department of Photonics and Optoinformatics, St. Petersburg University for Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO), St. Petersburg RU-197101, Russia 2Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg RU-194021, Russia 3School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen M...

Surfactant-free tiny Pt clusters were successfully encapsulated within MOFs with controllable size and spatial distribution by a novel kinetically modulated one-step strategy. Our synthesis relies on the rational manipulation of the reduction rate of Pt ions and/or the growth rate of MOFs by using H2 as assistant reducing agent and/or acetic acid as MOF-formation modulator. The as-prepared Pt@M...