IUPAC Task Group: Standardized reporting of gas adsorption isotherms
Stefan Kaskel (TU Dresden, Germany), Stuart Chalk (University of North Florida, USA), Jack Evans (University of Adelaide, Australia), Paul Iacomi (Surface Measurement Systems, UK), Lars R. Öhrström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Daniel Siderius (NIST, USA), Joaquin Silvestre-Albero (University of Alicante, Spain), Hideki Tanaka (Shinshu University, Japan), Veronique Van Speybroeck (Ghent University, Belgium)
MOFs play a key role for applications ranging from energy and environmental applications to gas separation, sensing, water harvesting, battery and nanomaterials.
For these applications adsorption data plays a key role either as basic information to analyze specific surface area and pore size distribution or for advanced characterization in which gas or liquid guest uptake is essential to determine selectivity and other performance indicators.
The FAIR guidelines require authors to submit original data in an accessible and findable digital format. For crystallographic data this is already an established standard (*.CIF file).
The IUPAC task group “Standardized reporting of gas adsorption isotherms” has now established a human readable standardized digital file format (*.aif file = adsorption information file) for archiving digital isotherm information.
The IUPAC task group encourages authors to submit digital adsorption data (*.AIF files) as integral part of their mandate to FAIR policy guidelines.
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