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Keywords:

  • adsorption;
  • metal–organic frameworks;
  • nanoporous materials;
  • thermodynamics;
  • xenon

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MOFs come alive: The combination of gas-adsorption experiments at various temperatures with an osmotic thermodynamic model produced a generic temperature–loading phase diagram that displays unexpected re-entrant behavior. The breathing effect in the metal–organic framework MIL-53(Al) is predicted to be general and should be observed over a limited temperature range regardless of the guest adsorbate.