Fig. 3.
Stabilization of the metastable cp/lp coexistence regions with increasing cell size. Pressure (bottom) and free energy (top) equations of state, with indication of the metastable (,) phase coexistence regions, in which cp and lp layers coexist, as a function of the volume (middle) for four different cell sizes: a a 2 × 2 × 2 supercell, b a 4 × 2 × 4 supercell, c a 6 × 2 × 6 supercell, and d an 8 × 2 × 8 supercell, all at 300 K. The red lines indicate the fitted thermodynamic model, which is extrapolated in e for a 128 × 2 × 128 cell (208.0 × 1.4 × 171.2 nm3), similar in size to experimental MIL-53(Al)-NH crystals (see Supplementary Note 2)