Dear Prof. Dubbeldam and RASPA community,
I am trying to reproduce adsorption of sarin on IRMOF-6 (
http://aam.ceb.cam.ac.uk/mof-explorer/CWACapture/).
I use GCMC ensemble and the molecule is flexible. The MOF charges are taken from CoRE MOF DDEC database.
I was able to get a reasonable value for adsorption when intra vdW and Coulomb interactions are turned off.
However, I believe it should be taken into account for a correct model. When I turn it on (same case for 1-4 and 1-5 or only 1-5 neighbors), the resulted adsorption is zero.
I did the following to make sure only this factor gives such a result:
- I tested the model of the molecule with bulk NPT (with intra interactions) and the result was reasonable and there was nothing strange with the system
- On the same model of IRMOF-6 I exactly reproduced adsorption of CO2 from literature
- Sarin with intra vdW and Coulomb did not give a zero adsorption on a zeolite (NaX)
Do you know what might cause the problem and is there a way to resolve it?
Thank you very much,
Alina